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The Electoral College

tes (Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia), would have more say because those states are not now in play between the parties; without the Electoral College, "urban areas in big states will dominate [and] that happens to be where blacks live." Blacks in New York and California (states now taken for granted as Democratic terrain) would get much more attention from all parties if voters, rather than states, were the currency”(Simendinger). Changing the system as such could have many effects such as Politicians might have to approach their campaigning in a very different light. Whichever dominant group may be around at the time, whether they are religious, ethnic, or other, would almost surely control the views and beliefs of the candidates. Little things like that do not necessarily favor anyone except the majority. So, for every good part about changing, there is an equally bad one in most cases, but not all. It makes the question of changing a matter of which way isn’t perfect but rather more tolerable. When it comes right down to it, there is nothing to be accomplished through talking about it so it a change conceivable or nothing more than a nave dream? At this time, a change is almost a virtual impossibility. With the system that is in place now, those states who are less populated have a small way to sort of even the score through the two electoral votes each gets for having two senators. With the majority of the states looking at it from this standpoint, as states, each might have more to lose rather than gain, but what about the United States as a entire community? If abolishment isn’t a realistic possibility, then there are many other ways in which the Electoral College could be reformed to be better. Some of these might include: “A direct-vote approach. If no candidate receives 40% of the popular vote, there will be a runoff between the top two, a district plan, awar...

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