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The Electoral College. Sophie. Why Has North Carolina’s Number of Electoral Votes increased in the last twenty years??. We are … affects the electoral college votes. What is the Electoral College??. The Electoral College is the … United States. It is administered by - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Sophie
Why Has North Carolina’s Number of Electoral Votes increased in the last twenty years?? We are … affects the electoral college
votes.
What is the Electoral College??
The Electoral College is the … United States.
It is administered by It is a process that started as a part of
the 1st US Constitution. Citizens vote … popular vote.
How Many Electoral College Votes Does a President Need Today to Win the Election? A president needs a minimum of
votes to win.
One election that interested me.
George Bush … others.
Graph of three states popular vote from the 2000 election.
Red represents the Republicans and blue the Democrats. The increment for the number of votes is gaining 500,000 each time. The states are so close you can barely tell then apart!
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500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
7) Do You Think it is Fair That if a Candidate Wins the States Popular Vote by Only 1 or 2 Percent That He or She Should Win All of the States Electoral Votes? Why or Why Not?
I think that a candidate should … could get a certain number of votes from that state.
8) How Can Presidential Candidates Use Math to Figure Out Where to Campaign? They could … to campaign there.
Why Do You Think it is Important for Candidates to Spend More Time in Some States and Less in Others?
They want to win … It is a strategy.
What were the two biggest election landslides?
In my graph I show the biggest landslide. I made a bar graph to show the vast difference. As you can see...
The second biggest landslide was between …%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
What Are The 2 Closest Presidential Races?
The closest race was between … votes. My graph shows the second closest
presidential race between ...
The End…
This is all you need to know about the electoral college!!!
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