Electoral College

The Electoral College is the system in which the President of the United States is elected.The simplest explanation of the Electoral College is that each state gets a certain number of electoral votes and whoever gets a majority of the states popular vote wins all the votes and whoever gets the most electoral votes win the election, regardless of the popular vote.



Utter Failure
The Electoral College is a broken system. there are a number of reasons fgor this, but the biggest are that it allows the loser of the election to win the election, puts all the campaign focus on a few swing states like Ohio, and giving some states more or less votes than they should, so not all votes are coounted equally. The biggest problem with the electoral college, however, is that it allowed George W Bush to become president, which would've happened if there was no Electoral College.

So Why Does It Even Exist?
Originally the Electoral College was created because news traveled so slowly, the best system was just have each state send delegates to Washington D.C. to decide the next president. But now, votes can be counted in a day and this clearly isn't an issue. Conservatives want to keep it around so they can use it to steal the elections, like they did in 2000 Presidental Election.