Electoral College

         Throughout my first semester of my senior year in high school I learned about the electoral college I did not know about before. This topic was and will forever be my favorite topic. I learned about the electors which are the people chosen by political parties/state to vote for presidential elections for major candidates 538 electors . Popular votes are the votes cast by general public counting basically the number of votes obtained nationally for each candidates.It is possible for a candidate to lose popular vote and still become president. Lastly the electoral college is the group of electors from each state that indirectly select the president and vice president. But how do the candidates win ? Winner-take- all system is when the candidate who win the majority of the popular vote in the state wins all of the electoral vote from that state. 270 votes is required to become president.
     The importance of understanding how the electoral college works is important because we know how a candidate makes it to the presidency.  Before, learning this topic I really had no idea how a president became a president I thought it was based on popular vote. This was my favorite topic because I feel like I learned something important that will help me understand the voting elections. With the election of Trump and Clinton I was actually interest because I now understood the concept which made it interesting for me.