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- Textbook: Chapters 7, 8
- Lesson
- APA style manual
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The Electoral College was created to protect US citizens against mob rule. Mob rule is the control of a lawful government system by a mass of people through violence and intimidation. However, some Americans question the legitimacy of this process. Pick one election where the outcome of the popular vote and the electoral college vote differed to create an argument in favor of or opposed to the use of the electoral college. List at least three valid points to support your argument. Present you argument in a PowerPoint presentation.
As you complete your presentation, be sure to:
- Use speaker's notes to expand upon the bullet point main ideas on your slides, making references to research and theory with citation.
- Proof your work
- Use visuals (pictures, video, narration, graphs, etc.) to compliment the text in your presentation and to reinforce your content.
- Do not just write a paper and copy chunks of it into each slide. Treat this as if you were going to give this presentation live.
Presentation Requirements (APA format)
- Length: 8-10 substantive slides (excluding cover and references slides)
- Font should not be smaller than size 16-point
- Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style
- References slide (a minimum of 2 outside scholarly sources plus the textbook and/or the weekly lesson for each course outcome)
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
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INTRODUCTION
❖Many US citizens have questioned the legitimacy of
the electoral college process
❖Some outcomes of popular votes have different
observation of the electoral college.
❖To many Americans, the electoral college has in many
occasions failed to live to its purpose
EXAMPLE OF AN ELECTION THAT WAS
FAVORED BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
❖The 2016 US presidential election
between Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump
❖Trump was the winner in Pennsylvania
and Florida with a plurality of 49.0%
of the popular vote that included a
1.2% winning margin over Hillary
Clinton, who had 47.8% of the vote.
❖Clinton on the other hand, won
Massachusetts by almost a million votes
but only got 11 electoral votes.
POLITICAL DISTORTION
❖The Electoral Colleges tends to
distort political campaigns in some
occasions
❖They interfere with parties so as to
write of some states
❖The systems make political
candidates to grant more weight to
the regional needs of swing states
❖They sometimes intentionally fail to
distribute electoral votes according
to the population
NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE ALLOWED TO
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
❖System only permits people who have a
representative in Congress to vote.
❖This means that people who stay in Puerto
Rico and Guam are not allowed to vote, yet
they pay taxes.
❖This is because such individuals a...
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