The Electoral College vs A National Popular Vote

There are many books, articles, and discussions about the Electoral College. However, this book explores the current method and a proposed method to elect the US president and vice president. The current and much-talked-about proposed methods are (a) the Electoral College and (b) a national popular vote to elect the US president and vice president. In this book, I explore these two methods by using a combination of narrative, mathematics, tables, and graphs. To that end, I make an objective and compelling case throughout the book for electing the US president and vice president with the Electoral College process and not a national popular vote process.  

The information in this book focuses heavily on the profound lopsidedness of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This lopsidedness alone is incompatible with conducting a simple national popular vote to elect the US president and vice president. 

To vigorously highlight the importance and necessity of the Electoral College, this book contains incredible objective evidence that the method of equal proportions is a rigorous and excellent model that demonstrates, within the margin of a mathematical certainty, the reliability of determining proportionality is fairly representing each state’s population and voting power in the Electoral College process. The idea is that there is little to no voting power in a national popular vote, but there is proportionate voting power in the Electoral College process relative to the size of each state. 

In the final analysis, the operative phrase is that the Electoral College forces the US presidential and vice-presidential candidates to put together a winning coalition while simultaneously giving voice to all states, which can only be done with the Electoral College.