Event #3

I went to a Marshall Center Lecture series. Joshua B. Kaplan was the speaker for this event. Kaplan works at the political science department at Notre Dame. Kaplan talked about the consequences of electoral college reforms that have been proposed. He states he believes the electoral college is not good. He stated that even the biggest fan of the electoral college would use it if we started over. He talks about how each proposal has its own bias. He believes these consequences could be worse than what we have. He talks about the electoral bias is in its geographic location. One of the revision plans is the Automatic plan which states we would keep electoral votes but not the electors. Each state would get the same amount of votes.

I found this lecture very interesting because we can see in elections how one candidate might win the popular vote nd the other the electoral vote. The one with the electoral vote will become president. These seems to be odd considering a majority of the population wants a certain person. During the time of the constitution this was used to suppress the masses because the elite didn’t want them to have to much power. You can also see during elections which states usually vote a certain way. This makes the electoral vote easy to get for the candidate of the party that state favors.