Friday, October 31, 2008

Should the Electoral College be Reformed?

1st Answer: I said no. I originally made this decision because I'm not very aware of the problems that our election process. I have been learning so much more about our country's election process this year, and thus am a little bit more able to point out some problems I have with it. Up until recently I always just assumed that during the time of an election the American people would simply just check the box next to the name of whoever they were voting for and at the end of the day the majority would win. This is the case, but as I've discovered the whole process is a little bit more complex than that. Its the electoral votes that confuse me the most... apparently George W. Bush had received less votes from the people but still won the election? That doesn't seem right...

2nd Answer:Yes. I said yes because of the whole situation of electoral votes being the final say in a popular election. I don't really agree with that. Something for me to consider however is that America is not a complete democracy... I thought that we were a democracy, but apparently our government just have some democratic characteristics? That kind of changes my opinion seeing that my original answer was biased from the idea of us being a true democracy.

3rd Answer: I said no. I simply figured that things have been working pretty well for the most part right now, so why should we reform the way our country's government works? Hasn't our government been one of the things that we are the most proud of?
4th Answer: I still said no. This argument is getting a little confusing.

5th Answer: I still said no because I accept that nothing can ever be truly perfect. No matter what I would have said this website would have disagreed. I believe that there will always be discrepancies in every government that exists because thats just the way we are. Seeing that government plays a large role in all our lives, it would be only natural for us to try and criticize anything that has control over us in any way. That, to me, is human nature.

1 comment:

ktblash said...

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