Electoral College

With a new system the Electoral College could cut out the "faulty" wins, allow for a more exciting campaign race, and allow for a smaller party to greater effect on the election.

The current system of the Electoral College is effective but not to the highest level of effectiveness that is possible. The system could be changed so that Elector votes would be proportional to the public votes. With this system the Electoral College could cut out "faulty" wins, allows for a more exciting and fair campaign race, and allow for smaller parties to make more of a dent.

 As an example, Wisconsin has 10 votes, say 70% of Wisconsin voters vote for Obama. With this, Wisconsin electors would vote 7 for Obama and 3 for Romney (If it was not even then the winning party rounds up). This would make it more accurate and cut out the chances of having Presidents who win the Electoral votes but not the popular votes. This has happened 3 times in the past and most recently in the 2000 election where Bush beat Gore not in popular vote but just Electoral College. This system would allow for a more fair way and not allow for these "faulty" wins.

There are states that always vote Republican or Democratic. Texas is nearly always Republican, so democrats know they will not win Texas and do not really fight for it. But, what if they could gain up to a third of Texas' votes and gain an extra 10 votes that they would not normally get. This would allow for a more exciting campaign race and allow for some states to get attention from the candidates that they normally never see. This would create a more exciting race from a political stand point and a public stand point and would in general get more people interested in the election.

Small parties make little to no difference in most recent elections. If the system was changed, it could promote these parties and potentially put one of these candidates into office. With Ralph Nader, the Green Party noise every single year and got some of their policies put into the Democratic or Republican plan, but since he is gone there has been nothing about the Green Party in any election news that I have seen. With the proportional system, they could turn out to be huge factors because they would certainly win some votes that they wouldn't have been won prior. A party as small as the Green Party is not likely to win the majority of the votes in a state but they can just make dents into the Republican or Democrat votes by winning a few votes in each state.