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cadc542b8ef3 | 0D18BDF22C59 | We need to help them understand that the only way things are going to change are by the acts of others. | Rebuttal | Effective |
98c8de9ef5a8 | 0D18BDF22C59 | We wouldn't have a lot of things if it weren't for the kind act of other people. For example, what people are doing in Haiti is a kind act of helping. The water wells that are being built there are helping the Haitians so they can have clean drinking water and cleaning water. I am sure that the Haitians are very thankful that there are people in the world that care. | Evidence | Effective |
2affa161a39f | 0D18BDF22C59 | I hope we can get plenty of support out of this cause and help things become a little better than they are now. Please help me get the support of others and to help me take this writing into action. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
56dd3eab38a4 | 0D6199F762DC | To keep the Electoral College or to change the election by popular vote is the question many people are facing today. There are many different reason why we should keep, and same for as why we should change it. | Lead | Adequate |
11a086753397 | 0D6199F762DC | I believe we should change the election from the Electoral College to popular vote | Position | Adequate |
4faadc791808 | 0D6199F762DC | because, with the Electoral College people are voting for a slate of electors not an actual presidential canidate | Claim | Adequate |
d120d9f0312c | 0D6199F762DC | it is unfair for our American people | Claim | Adequate |
38e4f2d2e0c1 | 0D6199F762DC | and most people prefer the popualr vote. | Claim | Adequate |
8a3284ee043c | 0D6199F762DC | By voting for a presidential canidate you are actually voting for a slate of electors who vote for the presidental canidate. | Claim | Adequate |
9ecf13bf817d | 0D6199F762DC | This means that our votes don't really count for much. It also means that even though we voted for someone the slate could have voted for someone completely different. Also we the people have no idea who the electors are. Who even picks them? The electors that are chosen depends on the state, sometimes it's the state conventions, sometimes the states party's central committee, and sometimes it can be the presidential canidate himself. Some voters didnt even see campaigne ads, so how did they chose their presidential caidate? They didn't, the Electoral College did. | Evidence | Effective |
6a812a6d3650 | 0D6199F762DC | America is suppose to be a free state, that is fair, but are we really? The Electoral College is one thing I can point out as unfair. | Claim | Adequate |
69cde158e329 | 0D6199F762DC | Most states have a "winner-take-all" system, that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate, but what if the people didn't want that candiate? Why should he get our way of speaking to the government? How are we even sure that he didn't elect himself? Also canidates don't spend time in the states they know they will have a chance of winning because of biasim. They mainly focus on the tight races in the "swing" states. | Evidence | Adequate |
00062190afe4 | 0D6199F762DC | In reality we all want our way, or our voice and or actions to make an impact, with the Electoral College that's not happening, which is making the people of our country unhapy with the government, which means we all can't get along | Evidence | Ineffective |
638020e7f84e | 0D6199F762DC | Most people prefer elections to be based on popular vote so they know they get what they want, so they know they're actually making an impact. | Claim | Effective |
f1763cc17d22 | 0D6199F762DC | With this being said, I believe I have made my impact on your thoughts of the question, " to keep the Electoral College, or change election to popular vote?". The Electoral College has both it's upsides and it's downside, but I believe it has more flaws than perfections. Yes, it has been around for many decades and is apart of our histroy, maybe it worked then, but it's not working now. And we need to make a change before things get worse. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c0ce0093f6b5 | 0DD32C6E4E62 | The electoral college is one of the most heavily criticized institutions in the American government system. It has been considered outdated and anti-democratic. | Lead | Effective |
08d7d0df87fc | 0DD32C6E4E62 | However, without it, the balance of power in America would be skewed to an unacceptable degree. States with large populations would be disproportionately empowered, without the electoral college. This leaves the smaller states' existence to be controlled by the larger states, to the dismay of the American economy and people. | Position | Effective |
150412198e3f | 0DD32C6E4E62 | As it stands, most states vote in a way that presents a united front of electors to the electoral college. | Claim | Effective |
a954e2c644f9 | 0DD32C6E4E62 | If just over half of the Californian voters vote for one candidate that they think would represent their interests, the map in source 3 shows that all 55 electors will present their votes to the college. It is better for California to be represented in this way so that the Californian economy would not be adversely effected by their minority voters. That sort of united front is beneficial to every state in the union, for the same reason. | Evidence | Effective |
a987e1eac3ba | 0DD32C6E4E62 | The argument that the electoral college discourages voters of the minority party to vote is a valid criticism, but it is a problem that can be solved without the loss of the electoral college | Counterclaim | Adequate |
791db864e194 | 0DD32C6E4E62 | Compulsory voting would be far more effective if voter turnout is an issue. People who would not have voted otherwise would still likely vote for the candidate they supported if voting was made mandatory. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
54f7814e241a | 0DD32C6E4E62 | In source 2, Bradford Plumer expressed dissatisfaction with the way political campaigns involving the electoral college focus on swing states rather than allowing equal debate in all states, but that does not make for a less desirable outcome. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
fc6d837b90f7 | 0DD32C6E4E62 | Dissolving the electoral college would make swing states irrelevant to presidential elections, as it'd be impossible to win votes in those states by any decent margin. Instead, campaigns would focus on the areas in which they already have an agreeable population, as to encourage them to vote, and get the most voters possible, using their resources. Trying to win states, rather than population, allows for voters to be more informed. | Rebuttal | Effective |
229e7d3fc837 | 0DD32C6E4E62 | The electoral college might not be the best potential method for presidential elections. It is, however, far more desirable for such a large country than popular vote. Popular vote would lead to neglecting many areas of the economy that are important, but do not have a presence in states with large populations. It would make elections more one sided for each state at the same time. The problems the opponents say abolishing it would fix, would be fixed without it, but doing so would create far more problems than it solved. It is also easy enough to fix the same problems without abolishing the electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c41fcd58e7a6 | 0E01BA28D3D9 | one reason i think that the face is just natural landform | Position | Adequate |
55f39291c08c | 0E01BA28D3D9 | is because it says that viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship. viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. | Evidence | Adequate |
0b3cdad01851 | 0E01BA28D3D9 | scientists figured it was just another martain mesa, common enought around cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like and egyptaian pharaoh.
| Claim | Adequate |
94139e66b6af | 0E01BA28D3D9 | In the article it says that The "Face on Mars" has become a pop icon. The face icon statted in a hollywood film appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Most people belive that face was an alien artifact, photographing cydonia became a priority for NASA when mars global surveyor (MGS)arrived in red planet sept. 1997. | Evidence | Ineffective |
fe9562ff45f9 | 0E01BA28D3D9 | The face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo. | Evidence | Adequate |
72eaed2a62e0 | 0E01BA28D3D9 | So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks you could see what they were! | Claim | Adequate |
153e4c61cb04 | 0E0618CA73CD | Good day state senator in this letter I would like to talk to you about changing the Electoral College to a popular vote. Even though the Electoral College is a good way of selecting a president. This meathot has his flaws, under the electoral college system the people that vote are not voating for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. | Lead | Adequate |
64330ebd6bb3 | 0E0618CA73CD | I think that the people that vote shude vote directly for the candidate they have chousen.
| Position | Adequate |
41cf6068d7c8 | 0E0618CA73CD | This makes more sense that voting for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledge to the candidate. | Evidence | Adequate |
3d22ad35deab | 0E0618CA73CD | I think at the most basic level the electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
ba2ac39a6b32 | 0E0618CA73CD | Since the voter are not voting directly for their candidate of choise, I personaly dont think this is the best way to go. The popula elections provide a better way of voting for president. Since it means that the people that vote a voating directly to the candidarte and not the electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6de93cc687b7 | 0E0618CA73CD | The popular elections is a safer an more fair way to vote. | Claim | Adequate |
3953c2d370f5 | 0E0618CA73CD | By thid we could evate the disaster factor, for example the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century and the system allows for much worse. | Evidence | Adequate |
0e135bbf036f | 0E0FF9B702E0 | There are a lot of things that develop and hold a Electoral College together. There are also a lot of down falls to the Electoral College. Every state has 1 House of Representative plus 2 of your Senators in the Electoral College. There are a total of 538 people but 270 of them is the majority vote that wins. | Lead | Adequate |
4224cec609cb | 0E0FF9B702E0 | There are a total of 5 reasons why we have to keep this method to choosing the president | Position | Adequate |
f1d4858c387d | 0E0FF9B702E0 | The 5 ways are Certainty of outcome,Everyone's President,Swing States,Big States and Avoid Run-Off Elections. | Claim | Adequate |
c55d299546af | 0E0FF9B702E0 | The main reason we have a Electoral College is so they have a right way to choose a president. | Claim | Adequate |
a95c42b8b72b | 0E0FF9B702E0 | The main reason for this is so that we dont leave our electing in the hands of foriegn people/immiagrants. The is what the president needs to get elected in the electoral college. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6d680013cc2c | 0E0FF9B702E0 | There are still a lot of down falls to this method of the electoral college though. One of these issues is "at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voter" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
df9f36c08010 | 0E0FF9B702E0 | This means "winner takes all" which is they only focus on the bigger states and not the smaller ones because the bigger states have bigger population which means they have more in the electoral college | Evidence | Adequate |
4b48176afad4 | 0E0FF9B702E0 | Another issue with this method is that the person thats running for president might get the popularity vote but still not win. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a2801d9b1236 | 0E0FF9B702E0 | See everyone that votes isnt really voting directly for the president, the people who really count is the electoral college. In order to win the vote you have to convice the electoral college and thats not always easy. So remember just because you won popular vote doesnt mean you won the majority of the electoral vote.
| Evidence | Adequate |
cf13da1cab8f | 0E0FF9B702E0 | There are 5 reasons why we keep this method of electing the president. | Claim | Adequate |
00f637b87312 | 0E0FF9B702E0 | The first reason is Certainty of Outcome. This means "it's less likley than a dispute over the popular vote." Which really means the candidates share to the other people in the Electoral college there share of the popular vote and thats how they vote. The second reason is Everyone's President. This is basically shows that "the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal." This means that no region such as south,northwest,etc. has enough electoral votes to elect a president. The third resone to keeping these methods is Swing States. This tells me that its the "winner takes all method." The fourth method why we should keep these methods is the Big States. This explains that "the Electoral College restores some of the wieght in the political balance." this means that the bigger states get a big advantage in the electoral because the people that get elected into office there is based off of population so they have an advantage. THe bigger states get more attention from the candates then the smaller states do. The final reason why we should keep this method of voting is Avoid Run-Off Elections. This means "the Electoral College aviods the problem of Elections in which no candidates recieves a majority of the votes cast". This means no pressure for candidates when they win majority of the votes cast. | Evidence | Effective |
c5d2f056bfdb | 0E0FF9B702E0 | There are many ways to develop and to hold the Electoral College together. There are many ways that it falls apart and has it flaws but its the best way for our econany to vote for president. If you think about it if we just did popularity vote that would be like leading our hands into a world of immigrates who know a very little. There a lot of rules for our Electoral process buyt its the best way and the only way we have to becoming a better place. Dont forget to look at the 5 reasons we keep this the way it is. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e3e7dc6aa984 | 0E550CD08832 | The electoral college in many peoples eyes is a good thing but, there is a majority of other people who would much rather have a more direct vote because all though one president got the popular vote among the voters, the electoral votes count differently. One direct vote could count for ten votes or it could count for two votes and most people would rather have their vote count as just their vote. | Lead | Adequate |
665d080ea986 | 0E550CD08832 | Electoral votes in a lot of peoples minds is just unfair all around. | Position | Adequate |
4a4f07ed70d1 | 0E550CD08832 | One president could be the favorite among the voters but the electors the president has to back him up with electoral votes could maybe not be as big as another presidents electors and its pretty much, in many peoples eyes, giving the least popular among the people president an easier way to become president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ab2549ab7533 | 0E550CD08832 | Adults that vote like knowing that their vote really counts for the person theyre voting for. That is why people would much rather have a direct way of voting than the electoral college | Claim | Adequate |
4d7fb771ae5c | 0E550CD08832 | which is taking one vote from one person, and say there are thirty electors in that one slab for the person you voted for, and giving that person thirty votes for the person they want elected. People find this way of voting unfair because they dont like the fact that the person they voted for could get the most popular votes, but the number of electors there are for the person is not very many, so their votes count as less than others do. Many feel that they are being deprived of their right to vote because one person could be voting but they get 10 votes while another peson could be votin and only get 6 and its not equal for all people.
| Evidence | Adequate |
152cb13ae827 | 0E550CD08832 | People who vote for a president that gets the most popular votes, and they dont win the election, can start big disputes among the way the elections are carried out. | Claim | Adequate |
39cf38dc496a | 0E550CD08832 | When a president wins only the electoral votes and not the popular vote, many dont feel like they are actually their president. Most people would prefer direct voting because it actaully makes everybodys votes count equally and everybody has equality. Winning electoral votes doesnt show that you won because the majority of people wanted you to win, it shows you have many supporters to give you more votes through the electoral college | Evidence | Adequate |
30119ce384e7 | 0E550CD08832 | Direct voting would be a better way to vote so that everybody felt like their votes really counted towards who they voted for and that they arent getting cheated because one president has more electors supporting them. The electoral college is not based on equality because everybodys votes count differently due to supporters or electors who are pretty much the ones getting the votes. fixing the way people vote and how they vote can change the way some people feel towards the preident no matter who they are. Let the people vote for who they want and not the electors because it would make more people more open to vote than there are now. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
316d15f63aa8 | 0EA4C1D85D69 | In this essay I am going to talk about NASA discussing the Face with, someone who thinks it was created by aliens and I am suppose to convince that is wasn't a alien who, made the Face. | Lead | Ineffective |
913ff0cb0dc5 | 0EA4C1D85D69 | Why don't I believe that wasn't a alien because it could have been a rock that landed and it shaped the Mars into a face in 2001.
| Position | Adequate |
3971c94e98eb | 0EA4C1D85D69 | So why I don't think aliens made it beacuse aliens aren't real, and they would have did something different probably if they were real. In this essay I don't think it was by aliens because it says " The caption noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nise, and a mouth. | Evidence | Adequate |
ebf36cdb9e22 | 0EA4C1D85D69 | I don't think aliens made this because of the pictures and things. They would have showed up and given us a sign that they were there and there are satellites up that takes pictures of all the things and planets. | Claim | Adequate |
d25948a5c7a6 | 0EA4C1D85D69 | For my conclusion I think aliens did not make the Face because of many reasons and because, of the technology today we could have picked up a signal or something because, of the satellites and all of the technology we have today. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8ae0dc965236 | 0EAF5E712F0D | I think we should keep the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
4ec3bf7d9567 | 0EAF5E712F0D | For one reason is its in our Constitution | Claim | Adequate |
da86eb7c3adb | 0EAF5E712F0D | You cant just go back and erase it off the Constitution | Evidence | Adequate |
341adb2b2c04 | 0EAF5E712F0D | The other thing is you have to be an qualified citizen. | Claim | Ineffective |
fcd7269b59f7 | 0EAF5E712F0D | Sorry but i dont want a comenest to vote for our president.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
15fe3d54d5a7 | 0EAF5E712F0D | The Electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportonment of the senate decreed in the constitution | Claim | Adequate |
a81bda12c3ab | 0EAF5E712F0D | So your getting back some of what you put in, it is a win win situation | Evidence | Ineffective |
d89c42631639 | 0EAF5E712F0D | If you keep the Electoral college you get certainty of out come | Claim | Adequate |
ad2b079f48a0 | 0EAF5E712F0D | A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible it happend in 2000. | Evidence | Adequate |
96d28da21c54 | 0EAF5E712F0D | The electoral college requries a presidential candidate to have a transregional appeal | Claim | Adequate |
b27afac0b8e7 | 0EAF5E712F0D | No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. | Evidence | Adequate |
03fdb584ad9c | 0EAF5E712F0D | The electoral college can be argued that its method of selecting the president my turn off voters for a candidate who has no hope of carring there state. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
fce978ce774d | 0EAF5E712F0D | you can also avoid run off elections. The Electoral college avoids the oroblems of and election | Claim | Adequate |
c59a08b6c3e8 | 0EAF5E712F0D | Like when Nixion and Clinton both had 43 percent plurality of popular votes, while winning a majority in Electoral college. | Evidence | Adequate |
99e097451bba | 0EAF5E712F0D | This is my reasons why i would keep the Electoral college | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c1aa2f5da191 | 0ED7102ED5B3 | Why should we keep the Electoral College? Because its what we've done from the start. Sometimes its fine just to keep things the same | Position | Adequate |
0b64edcc4ddb | 0ED7102ED5B3 | There is nothing wrong with change but I beleive that this is the right choice. | Claim | Adequate |
3e2c3650c899 | 0ED7102ED5B3 | If we demolish the Electroal College then voting really wouldn't be fair. Because some states have more people than others.
| Claim | Adequate |
cd56e47df66d | 0ED7102ED5B3 | I dont think we really need to change this rule. Because sometimes its best to keep things the same | Claim | Adequate |
c07b53f71e92 | 0ED7102ED5B3 | Its been going on for about 200 years. There hasn't been too many things that have gone wrong with it. Yes there has been troubles in the past. But were all human no matter what we do we can't be perfect. So we will just have to learn from our mistakes an approve on them. We have to belive we have the right people for the job and hope they will make sure things run smoothly for electing a president or any other official we use it for. | Evidence | Adequate |
2933ab2ea69b | 0ED7102ED5B3 | If we get rid of the Electoral College then the voting for office wouldnt be fair. Some states are a lot bigger than others. So once its gone then the bigger states would have more effect on the votes than the smaller ones | Claim | Ineffective |
b8b501fc4e62 | 0ED7102ED5B3 | Example: if we do get a new way to vote and its off popular vote then what if New York has 40,000,000 people and Nevada has only 10,000,000 people. New Yorks votes would have a more effect than Nevadas. This may lead to long debates over the voting arrangement because the smaller states would be mad that they wouldn't get as much of a fair vote. Just like how it was when the founding fathers made this arrangement.
| Evidence | Adequate |
736dbdb01167 | 0ED7102ED5B3 | These are my reasons I think that keeping the Electoral College is a better than having just popular vote. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b4b8a44290a9 | 0EF91AC5D457 | I wanted to adress the positivity in keeping the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
1ac4fcc2fa8a | 0EF91AC5D457 | The Electoral College has a small chance of winning with a Electoral College vote than a popular vote. | Claim | Adequate |
6f0bd9f66316 | 0EF91AC5D457 | Every state is important because everyone's a president. | Claim | Adequate |
b965a5b5e573 | 0EF91AC5D457 | there are swing states which is a winner-takes-all method. | Claim | Adequate |
3788179fd7a5 | 0EF91AC5D457 | Although in 2000 the Electoral College vote happened | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
3ee2c9e61ff4 | 0EF91AC5D457 | it is very unlikely to occur. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
7f4770f6a9dc | 0EF91AC5D457 | Reason is that the Electoral College exceeds the share of the popular vote. Even a slight chance of a state plurality could cause a landslide electoral-vote-victory. | Evidence | Adequate |
2aed3fe9d885 | 0EF91AC5D457 | In the Electoral College no region has enough Electoral votes to elect a president | Claim | Adequate |
e84ea310f265 | 0EF91AC5D457 | This means that a region needs to influence another to have atleast a elected president. For example, Romney was a solid regional(South) which means he focused in one region not the others, concluding his lost. So, it was very likely that Romney would not win because of his appeal to one region. | Evidence | Adequate |
063d424a9736 | 0EF91AC5D457 | This was seen in 2012's election. The ost thoughtful voteers would have to decide the election, making Electoral College very fair. | Evidence | Ineffective |
86db80fa8104 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | it is unfair to ask that students participating in sports should have a B average. | Position | Adequate |
38ffed940673 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | Sports and other after school activities take a lot of time and commitment, and leave participants with much less time to study. | Claim | Effective |
787793166465 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | Asking participants to keep up a B average would cause a lot of stress on the students. Many students who do not partake in sports have difficulty keeping grades high, and sports require after school practices and games. This leaves team members with even less time to do their homework and study. | Evidence | Adequate |
e2cc43308696 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | Also, a B average is a 3.0 GPA, which is nearly honor roll! | Claim | Effective |
d98ab6938945 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | A 3.0 GPA is something teenagers should aspire towards and work for, but not be required to achieve. | Evidence | Adequate |
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