PSCI 3362 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-10: Electoral College
22 Feb 2016
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Electoral college is based on the assumpion that states embody coherent, uniied interests and communiies. The winner-take-all system makes sense if states really embodied coherent, uniied interests and communiies. Madison opposed the aggregaion of votes by state. Disaggregaing the vote would encourage cohesiveness within the country and not want candidates to make appeals to special interests. The electoral college protects only geographically concentrated interests. However there have not been any ideniied areas that need special protecion by the electoral college. States are divided by their difering interests, really, not their size. Small states usually do not have similar interests all throughout. There is a two-party system because there is a psychological factor that electors do not want to waste their votes for a third party that won"t gather as much votes and waste their votes. Voters get one ballot and vote all of their preferences in that ballot once.
