Electoral College

What Is It?
The Electoral College is not a place, but a method of electing our President. It was set-up by our Founding Fathers and now Progressives want to change it all. Founders did NOT want to elect the President by popular vote. Instead, they wanted a compromise between election of the President by Congress and by popular vote. American citizens (not ILLEGALS) vote for electors who in-turn vote for the President.

Number of Electors
Each state receives electors by the following formula. The number of electors is the number of US Senators (always 2), plus the number of the House of Representatives allocated by the census. The process of selecting electors varies from state to state. Usually, they are chosen at the state party conventions. Electors can be state-elected officials, party leaders, or people with political affiliation with the Presidential candidate. The electors in-turn vote for the President. This system has been in place since the country was founded. In the last Presidential election there were 538 electoral votes available.

Citizens in the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa cannot provide electors.

Number to Win
It takes a total number of 266 electoral votes to win the Presidency. It's possible for a candidate to win popular vote and not become the President. This has happened four times in American history. It happened in 1824, 1876, 1888, and in 2000.

If no candidate receives 288 electoral votes, then the House of Representatives elects the President from the three Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes. The US Senate would then elect the Vice President from the two VP candidates with the most electoral votes. If the House of Representatives fails to elect the President by Inauguration Day, then the Vice President elect would serve as President until the House of Representatives resolves the deadlock.

This Is A Republic
Our Founding Fathers created a Republic and NOT a Democracy! In a Democracy, the majority of popular vote wins. In OUR Republic, the candidate who receives 288 electoral votes wins. That's a BIG DIFFERENCE!!

Progressives have tried to change this procedure over 700 times since it was created! There is a new attack going on today to do just that. Recall, that Progressives under Woodrow Wilson's leadership DID change the method in which we elect US Senators. The individual states used to have the power to elect them. Progressives amended the Constitution in 1913 to have Senators elected by popular vote. Our Founders never wanted it that way! Popular vote changes it to a Democracy not a Republic.

Don't be mislead by today's Progressives. We do NOT want our President elected by popular vote. We should leave the Electoral College alone and stop meddling with it.