Our vote, the popular vote, is important during a presidential election. In our political system, each state has a certain number of electoral votes. The number of a state’s electoral votes equals the number of members the state has in both houses of Congress. When we vote for the President and the Vice President, we are voting for electors who will vote for a given candidate in the Electoral College. In most states, the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote gets that state’s entire electoral vote. In order to become President and Vice President, a candidate must get at least 270 electoral votes.
There are other reasons why our vote, the popular vote, is important. In almost every election, the candidate who won the vote in the Electoral College also won the popular vote. While there have been four times when the candidate who won the popular vote didn’t win the election, in the vast majority of elections, the result of the popular vote did determine the winner. Additionally, the percentage of the popular vote a candidate gets can determine if the candidate has a received a mandate from the people to lead the country.
The vote of the people is very important in the election for the President and the Vice President.
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