[Answered] POLI330N-Week 4 Discussion: The Electoral College Argument, Politics and Social Media

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook: Chapters 5, 6 and 10
  • Lesson: Read this Week’s Lesson which is located in the Modules tab
  • Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.

Initial Post Instructions

For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:

  • Option 1:List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
  • Option 2: There are numerous discussions involving the Electoral College. There are some people that want to abolish the electoral college while others want to keep it. What do you think? Keep the electoral college or abolish it? Explain the reasons for your choice.

Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at least one peer. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification. Minimum of 1 scholarly source which can include your textbook or assigned readings or may be from your additional scholarly research.

Writing Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
  • Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source) for your Initial Post, and 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references

SOLUTION 

This week’s discussion board touches on the electoral college and social media. As far as the electoral college, Sidlow and Henschen (1998) state that citizens do not vote directly for the president and vice president; instead, they vote for electors who will cast ballots in the electoral college. Each state has as many electoral votes as it has U.S. senators and representatives; the District of Columbia also has electors. The electoral college system is primarily a winner-take-all system, in which the candidate who receives the largest popular vote in a state is credited ……please click the purchase button to access the entire discussion at $5