Can anyone explain to me the meaning of Electoral Vote or how this work on the election?

Instead of voting directly for a presidential candidate (and his or her vice-presidential running mate), voters in the fifty states and the District of Columbia vote for a slate of ';electors'; who are pledged to vote for a particular presidential ticket (president/vice-president team). The political parties in each state select a slate of electors. The electors selected by the party of the candidate winning the most popular votes in a state become the electors for that state.





Instead of just tallying the total number of votes cast across the nation in presidential elections, votes are counted state-by-state. The winner of the popular vote in each state is awarded the electoral votes for that state. The candidate winning the majority of electoral votes wins.Can anyone explain to me the meaning of Electoral Vote or how this work on the election?
The original idea behind the electoral collage was that people would unlikely really know the presidential candidates. After all, even in todays telecommunications age, what you you really know about the presidential candidates (other than what their campains want you to hear).





So the idea was that the population would vote, not for a political condidate, but for a person they trusted to make a good judgement in selecting a president.





Think of it like this... initially, the people of your town were given the option of selecting 'Bob' or 'Ted' to represent them in chosing a president. The idea was that you would vote for the person you believed was most qualified to pick a president, you were not picking a president directly.





But while the founding father's didn't want the political process to turn into a two party system... it naturally did so. So what stated happening was that before you cast your vote for 'Bob' or 'Ted', Bod would anounce ahead of time that if you voted for him, he would vote for the 'blue' canditate, while 'Ted' would anounce that he would vote for the 'red' canditate. So very quickly, what started as an intellegent way of selecting the best president fell victim to reality and politics. The end result was that everyone was pretty much indirectly voting for the president of their choise. So long as the system remains that way (and I don't ever see it changing), the ellectorial collage has become obsolite.Can anyone explain to me the meaning of Electoral Vote or how this work on the election?
basically if 75 people in ohio voted for Obama and 25 for McCain then that means Obama won Ohio because of majorady. That means that since Ohio has 20 electoral votes,(votes as a whole) since Obama won the majorady the states electoral votes count toward Obama.








Let's say in Texas 700 people voted McCain and 300 voted Obama then the state's 34 electoral votes (as a whole votes) would be 34 Mccain .





One indivual vote for the state does NOT count as a vote for the president directly.
When the people at large vote for president in a general election they are voting for presidential electors. These electors meet in each state capital in December and cast their votes for President. They usually vote for the candidate that won the popular vote in their state.





This was written into the Constitution to appease states with smaller population, which feared that Presidents would be elected by those living in large cities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electo鈥?/a>





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