Americans Are Quietly Getting Closer to Ditching the Electoral College

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Americans Are Quietly Getting Closer to Ditching the Electoral College
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The Electoral College of the Framers is quite different than the Electoral College of today.

Casual observers of American politics might wonder how these popular vote-electoral vote deviations are possible. Presidential elections actually consist of 51 contests across the country. All states but Maine and Nebraska award their electoral votes through the"winner-take-all" system. This means that if a ticket wins a state by one vote, they receive all the electoral votes in that state.

Robert Alexander is the Wilfred E. Binkley endowed professor of political science and the director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University. He is the author ofThe views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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