US electoral system

[kowalskil]

The ongoing debates (August 2015) among potential Republican presidential candidates reminded me of a note I posted several years ago. Below is a link to an updated (and hopefully better) version of this note:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowals ... dentEN.htm

How can a retired teacher miss an opportunity for sharing what he thinks he understands better? Feel free to share the above link with all who might be interested, especially students. Comments will be appreciated, as usual.

Ludwik Kowalski, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus,
Montclair State University

[Philosophy Explorer]

You forgot to mention that the electoral college can cast their vote any way they like and not follow the popular vote of their state although traditionally they do. Also your example gives the wrong number of electoral votes for candidate Y which should be 23 votes, not 33 votes (count them up and see).

PhilX

[bobevenson]

The ongoing debates (August 2015) among potential Republican presidential candidates reminded me of a note I posted several years ago. Below is a link to an updated (and hopefully better) version of this note:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowals ... dentEN.htm

How can a retired teacher miss an opportunity for sharing what he thinks he understands better? Feel free to share the above link with all who might be interested, especially students. Comments will be appreciated, as usual.

Ludwik Kowalski, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus,
Montclair State University

Unfortunately, the U.S. government is not based on the concept of a unified country, but on an amalgamation of quasi-independent States. Under the AEP, the States would merely be subdivisions of the national government, and popular vote would prevail throughout.