November 5th, 2009 4:34 am
Im doing election stuff in TX History. Theres a question in my homework packet that asks how many electoral and popular votes these make believe people have. And i just don’t get it.
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November 5, 2009 at 8:14 am
the popular vote is like wut the citizwens vote the electoral vote is wut the electoral college(state representatives and senators) vote. The whole entire state can vote for obama and more than half the electoral college can vote for mccain and he will win the state
November 5, 2009 at 8:34 am
Basically, the “popular vote” is 51 separate state contests to select representatives to go to the electoral college. In those elections, you’re voting for a slate of electors pledged to vote for a certain candidate. Most states plus DC have a winner-take-all system, but Maine and Nebraska do it by congressional district.
Then the electors chosen via the popular vote meet in their respective states to actually elect the president. These people are bound to vote the way their state voted. The way these votes are cast is the electoral vote.
See, the national popular vote total is meaningless, because it’s not a national popular vote. State by state, yes. That’s why a candidate can win the popular vote and still lose the election, like what happened to Al Gore in 2000.
November 5, 2009 at 10:35 am
Tomorrow the population in general is voting. They are NOT choosing a president. They are choosing electors. On December 15th, the electors will choose the president.
The details are complicated. For example, each state gets a certain number of electors (number of representatives in house +2). In a lot of states, whomever gets the most votes in the popular vote gets ALL the electors for that state. This is why even though a president might get slightly less of the popular vote, he can still win the electoral vote by a landslide.
Pay no attention to the polls! Any poll that doesn’t pay attention to the electoral college is as useful as wet toilet paper.
November 5, 2009 at 4:25 pm
The popular vote is the vote that is counted based on the individual people who votes. The Electoral Vote (college) vote is based on the vote of electors for each state. The number of electors matches the number of representatives that state has. The total number of electors is 435.
I personally think the Electoral College is an antiquated institution that is no longer necessary because communication and technology have improved to a point where the popular vote can be counted easily. I also do not like the idea that all the electoral votes for a state go to one candidate when the popular vote may be 50/50 or 60/40, etc…
This is a basic explanation, I suggest doing a keyword search for electoral college.
November 5, 2009 at 10:12 pm
There are 538 electoral votes total. One vote for each of the 100 Senators, one vote for each of the 435 Congrssmen and 3 votes for DC.
Add your 2 Senators and total number of Congressmen/women in TX.
Texas will have that many electoral votes. Say one candidate gets 55% of the vote and the other 45%. Each will receive that percentage of electoral votes TX has.
To become President the candidate must receive at least 270 electoral votes Nation wide.
November 6, 2009 at 12:29 am
In my Social Studies class last year (seventh grade), we broke into small groups and my group was assigned the Electoral College section. As you know, you vote in your state. Whichever candidate the majority of your state votes for gets the electoral votes. There is a certain number of electoral votes allotted to each state. The number is based on the population, not size like some people mistake it to be. Here’s a map that shows how many electoral votes each state has:http://www.vernonkids.com/cedarmountain/…
Now, let’s say Barrack Obama gets four-million votes and John McCain gets two-million in the election. I’ll break it down. Let’s say California, Texas, South Dakota, and North Dakota are the only states that count (simply because I don’t wish to list all states and calculate the number of votes). But, let’s say, Barrack got 3,500,000 votes from Texas and 500,000 from South Dakota, and John McCain got 1,750,000 from California and 250,000 from North Dakota. Barrack would add up to 37 electoral votes and John Mccain would have 58. Even though Barrack had more general votes, he has less electoral votes, so John McCain would win.
If you have any other questions or need more clarification, email me at averya123@yahoo.com. I know, this is a very difficult topic to master through just reading.
Vote me best answer, please.
Good Luck!
Avery
13 years old
November 6, 2009 at 4:44 am
popular is the peoples vote. what you see in the polls.
lets say FL has 230 pop votes for Bob the Monkey and 30 for Piglet.
Then Bob had most pop votes so he gets all of FL’s electoral votes.
Each state has a amount of elec. votes. I think FL was like 27.
And yea…i would explain it more but its kind of hard.
I just learned about it anyways =)
November 6, 2009 at 6:39 am
a popular vote is the votes that the individual person does, and the electoral vote is the number of votes each state has, and however many popular votes win in that state, that declares what electoral votes are added to the 270 total electoral votes needed for the president to win.
November 6, 2009 at 10:59 am
Each state has X electoral votes. The one who wins the popular vote for each area gets that electoral vote. It is possible on the national level to win the popular majority but lose the electoral vote
November 6, 2009 at 3:23 pm
The electoral counts, thats the difference.
November 6, 2009 at 5:43 pm
gore won the popular vote
bush won the electoral vote
God bless george w. bush, the last true Christian alive