Required Resources
Textbook: Chapters 5, 6 and 10 (I WILL PROVIDE EBOOK LINK)
Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
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Initial Post Instructions
Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
I need 200 word initial post on the above topic & 100 word response to classmate’s post below:
” In this week’s readings I learned the use of electoral college is when Americans vote for a person in their state who have campaigned that they support the persons presidential candidate. In some rare cases the textbook explains that their elector may vote for someone else and not who the promised to vote for. In this scenario I can see what people would want to get rid of the electoral college because they vote for a party who promises one thing but does another which would make the American voter very upset. “Most of the time, this peculiar system works about the same way as if Americans chose the presidents by direct popular vote, but it has certain features that are politically consequential; Most importantly, a president can win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote” (Greenberg & Page, 2020, p.289). While reading an article I found it explains that the electoral college is not well understood and actually not popular with American Constitutional democracy. Most people who are critiques of the electoral college say it is not democratic and the system was not intended to make it easier to determine the majority vote. “Those in charge that the Electoral College was designed by men who “were deeply mistrustful of popular opinion” and “did not want the election of the president to be left to the people,” a small number of scholars, including the late Martin Diamond and more recently Gary Glenn, have pointed out that “ anyone who takes the trouble to actually read the debates in the Constitutional Convention will see that what was behind the Electoral College was not a hostility to popular election of the president” (Villegas, 2017). With information gathered for this week discussion I think the Electoral College should be gotten rid of as it does not sound very constitutional in the sense the peoples popular vote is not elected president which is what the majority of people want to run the country. Also based off the article I found it appears the electoral college was made due to not being able to trust the popular opinion, this seems odd in the fact we are a for the people making decisions of who should be over seeing the country.
References
Greenberg, E. S., & Page, B. (2020). The struggle for democracy. Pearson.
Villegas, C. (2017). Electing the people’s president: The popular origins of the electoral college. Perspectives on Political Science, 47(4), 201–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2016.1254492″
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