ABSTRACT
The Electoral College is one of the more criticized aspects of American presidential elections. The essential criticism is that the rules of determining a winner may be harmful to democratic elections. The rules of winner-take-all outcomes and the necessity of winning a plurality of the Electoral College troubles many because it does not make the basis for election a popular majority of voters. More than 50 percent of all Electoral College votes were in the North, and around 25 percent were in the South and more than 48 percent of all Electoral College votes were in the North. Democratic dominance was deriving nearly 80 percent of all its Electoral College votes from the North. The drive to win more states has an important effect. It motivates candidates to seek votes in states that they might neglect if they could just devote their attention to increasing their votes within their base states.
