POLSCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pocket Veto
12 Jun 2018
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● Effects of Electoral College:
○ Helps big states?
■ Winner take all states - win california by 1 vote, get all 55 of electoral college
votes
■ Can become president by winning only 11 states
○ Help small states?
■ Overrepresented (mathematically - compared to big states)
● Electoral - seats in H.O.R + Senate
○ Far more electoral votes per capita (per person)
○ Magnify size of victory
■ Electoral college vote = larger vote, person who wins gets a greater stamp of
approval
● Not compared to popular vote
○ Power to the house
■ If no one wins the majority of electoral college, then it goes to the house of
representatives (president)
● Example: Trump had not won MI/Penn., could’ve had a tie
● 12th amendment - electors 1 vote for president 1 vote for VP
○ Can win popular vote but lose election
○ Another potential effect:
■ Too few competitive states
■ Less “battleground” states
Filibusters Continued:
● Occasionally there are dramatic filibusters but rare
○ Typically just filibuster when they know they are going to lose
Presidential Powers:
● Way more powers than founders would have hoped for
● Checks/balances
○ Executive branch
● Article 1 Powers (still for legislative branch)
○ President signs a bill into law
■ Can choose not to sign it
● Does’t sig i days → eoes la
● Veto
○ Gets ill → ot goig to sig → seds ak to ogress
● Pocket veto
○ Gets it → does’t sig → ogress adjours ithi days,
does’t hae to do aythig ad it eoes effetiely etoed
○ Overrides: can be overwritten
● Article II Powers and Duties
○ Less major:
■ Request opinions from cabinet
■ Grant pardons
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Document Summary
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