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This essay examines the process of electing President of the United States, and discusses various influences on the process, including the Electoral College, special interest groups and the media. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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determine if their political party supports them. They then go through conventions to be formally "endorsed" by their parties. Then they go up before the people of the country, who,
on the first Tuesday in November, enter voting booths to decide who will be president. And then, at the end, the ultimate election is decided by whomever reaches 270 Electoral
Votes. The question is, however, how fair is this particular political process in this day and age? Are candidates elected president because of the will of the people? Or because
of special interest groups and media influence? This paper will analyze presidential elections based on these questions. First of all, there have
been questions about the efficiency of the Electoral College almost since the inception of the vote. The idea behind the "college" is that states receive a certain number of Electoral
Votes, based on the number of congressional representatives they have. The number of these representatives is based on the population of a state. This means, then that a state like
California or New York will have more Electoral Votes than a smaller state like Rhode Island or Delaware. The candidate who wins the most vote in a state then gets
the Electoral Vote (which is formally ratified upon completion of the election). The problem is, however, that based on this system, a candidate can actually win the office of the
presidency by winning Electoral Votes, even if the popular vote, in other words, the actual number of people who voted for him, is larger for the opponent. It happened in
the 2000 presidential election, when Democrat candidate Al Gore received more actual votes, but Republican candidate George W. Bush won the Electoral College vote. Given that, and other factors, the
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