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669c3717b2d7	D34054ADD2FB	the Electoral College must be abolished because it does not properly refelct the views of the nation.	Claim	Effective
47b6cf47e5e3	D34054ADD2FB	Citizens' wishes will not always be equivalent to what the electors vote for. This occurs partly because of the winner-take-all system. In this system, the winner of the popular vote in an individual state wins all of the electoral votes a state has. According to the Office of the Federal Register, all but two states use this system. These two states are Nebraska and Maine. As a result of the winner-take-all system, it is possible that a presidential candidate loses the overall popular vote, but wins more electoral votes and thus wins the election. This occurance happened in the infamous 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to George W. Bush by a mere five electoral votes. If the public indicated they wanted Al Gore as president, why should Bush have won due to this unfair system? It simply doesn't make sense. The winner-take-all system also results in political campaigns to focus their efforts in only certain regions. Some states very predictably vote either for the Republican candidate or for the Democratic candidate. Take Texas, for instance, which has traditionally always voted red. A Democratic candidate knows he should not focus his campaign in Texas, because he realizes his best efforts won't allow him to win the popular vote there and thus win the electoral votes. Because of the tendencies of certain states, many electoral votes are practically predetermined. The states which do not typically only vote in favor of one side are labelled "swing states". With the way the Electoral College works, the few states which are a toss-up carry the most weight. Presidential candidates will usually spend most of their time in these swing states, and very little time in others. For example, in the 2000 election, seventeen states were not visited by either candidate. Supporters of the Electoral College view the disproportional focus of campaigns as a positive. According to Richard A. Posner's article in favor of this corrupt system, "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constituion..." (21)	Evidence	Effective
eea30dbe8517	D34054ADD2FB	While it might seem reasonable for larger states to have a larger impact than smaller states,	Counterclaim	Effective
d881b3fe4a80	D34054ADD2FB	it simply isn't a fair way to go about having an election. Voters should each have the same impact, and they would have exactly that in a direct election	Rebuttal	Effective
144225652df1	D34054ADD2FB	Presently, voters in Florida, for instance, have more impact on the election than a voter in Wyoming.	Evidence	Effective
0c98a7cebaaa	D34054ADD2FB	Supporters also claim the focus on swing states is beneficial because residents of swing states should be more politically informed due to their state's importance in the election	Counterclaim	Effective
9dce6a4b5745	D34054ADD2FB	This notion is simply a fabrication in order to make the Electoral College seem as if it causes America to be more informed, because there would be no need for residents of specific states to pay closer attention to candidates than residents of others if a direct election were to take place. The Electoral College does not properly reflect the desire of the nation's population, and thus should be replaced.	Rebuttal	Effective
41fd6166db4d	D34054ADD2FB	In retrospect, the Electoral College must be abolished. It is an inherently unfair system and it does not reflect the views of American voters	Concluding Statement	Adequate
26d4651044c1	D3C4B340AB3F	I think if a student has a c average you should give him or a chance	Position	Adequate
e313ab4c55ab	D3C4B340AB3F	It would be un fair	Claim	Adequate
bf77d26f3158	D3C4B340AB3F	if a student did his or her best and all the could give is a c then you should let them play. A lot of students aren't able to pull of a b average so give those students a chance to play sports.	Evidence	Adequate
ab1d1e74c3ad	D3C4B340AB3F	a c average isn't that bad they are still passing	Claim	Adequate
8a15329161ab	D3C4B340AB3F	but they can play sports and anything else they want.	Evidence	Ineffective
e653c9e905a1	D3C4B340AB3F	there are so many students that only have sports some people that don't have sports they end up doing nothing	Claim	Adequate
d235ffa21fa7	D3C4B340AB3F	People drop out of school cause they think if they don't have the grades to play sports they cant do anything with their life. So i know you don't want that to happen	Evidence	Adequate
043be9976642	D4442F757F02	Community service is a very important to me because its the right ting to do	Position	Adequate
e880f60ee665	D4442F757F02	I would rather drive down the road and not see plastic bags and beer bottles on the side of the road.	Evidence	Adequate
27e7219da90b	D4442F757F02	I want my community to look beautiful. Not only my community but the whole town.	Claim	Adequate
172459ff10af	D4442F757F02	Cleaning the road isn't the only form of community service. If people don't want to get dirty, the they can go help tutor kids, or read at the library. They can go to the homeless shelter or Faith Missions and help organize or feed people. They can come up to the school and help my dad, the janitor, clean the school. There is many things other than cleaning the road that they can do.	Evidence	Adequate
2a0a45a95aa6	D4442F757F02	kids should want to help out.	Claim	Adequate
34bb4cfa7dc5	D4442F757F02	they don't have the incinive to help because its not required. Honestly, think about this. Jesus helped because he cared. God did not tell Him to come down here and do nothing. He told Him to help the sick, feed the hungry, heal the lepers, and care for the weak. Jesus did all of this stuff and much more because He cared about this stuff, plus He had the incinive to do it because His father told Him to.	Evidence	Ineffective
3a27f56aea0e	D4442F757F02	If you would make this a requirement for students	Concluding Statement	Adequate
2e0dd93c47b7	D4442F757F02	sure some would have there moans and disagreements and maybe not do anything to help	Counterclaim	Ineffective
3bd0a575cab8	D4A3E7EC982E	In this essay i will be explaining the difference and similarities and the pros and cons of the electoral college and opposing it	Lead	Adequate
688a526a7cae	D4A3E7EC982E	I personally like the idea of having the people themselves vote	Position	Adequate
dbec45707cf8	D4A3E7EC982E	because the electors could change their mind	Claim	Adequate
918cf4fb0ba0	D4A3E7EC982E	because it makes more sense to just vote for who you think should be president	Claim	Adequate
4d60a8d3abde	D4A3E7EC982E	one reason to pick electors is because its less people to keep count of. Having these electors is another step in the voting procces but it keeps things going easier.	Counterclaim	Adequate
e007b980aabb	D4A3E7EC982E	In conlusion, i dont agree with this, there is almost nothing i can think of that is good about this, unfortunutely.	Rebuttal	Adequate
2787ddef1d8d	D4A3E7EC982E	Secondly, The great points of having the people themselves vote (which i agree with)	Claim	Ineffective
77bad5ec90a1	D4A3E7EC982E	One reason, is that electors can change their mind and vote for whoever they want and it could completely change the election. Secondly, This requires the president to go to all states exculding no one! This way all states feel equal and they feel like all of their votes matter. Another great reason is that they focus more on toss up states where people tend to pay more attention. Another good reason, is that bigger states get more attention. This is important because he can reach out to more people rather than a smaller state.	Evidence	Adequate
99c616943394	D4A3E7EC982E	In conclusion, I think having people do the elections themselves is the better option	Concluding Statement	Adequate
cb0861bb9bfe	D4BB02CCC116	I am writing this letter to convince you that you should not do this policy change.	Position	Adequate
47bbe4802bf9	D4BB02CCC116	There is many students that may have a high C, and it wouldn't be fair if they didn't get to play sports because of it. Read on and I'm going to explain why you shouldn't do this.	Evidence	Adequate
829721fb0ad5	D4BB02CCC116	This is not a good idea because it wouldn't be fair to some students if you take there privileges away from them because of one bad grade.	Claim	Adequate
3d4c487efe28	D4BB02CCC116	I specifically think that this situation is by far not fair at all. For example, if a student had just one bad grade, and it was a high C, they still would not have any of the privileges to participate in any sport activities. I am telling you not to do this to kids because, it is not right to take this away from them. Maybe if they start participating in other school activities such as, math counts, the academic team, and so on, this could help kids bring up there grade in certain areas. So in my opinion I think you shouldn't do this to children just because of one grade.	Evidence	Adequate
1d3329fd5282	D4BB02CCC116	Some more of my ideas, is that you should let anybody who wants to participate in sports still do it if they have a bad grade. You should let them play any sport they wanted to but if there grades start to drop, not let them anymore because this means they are to focused on sports to do there school work.	Evidence	Adequate
73b1a901547c	D4BB02CCC116	These are some reasons, that you shouldn't do the policy change.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
498e04135a07	D4BFB840A534	I believe that all students should be required to do community service, But i also believe that students should not have to be forced to do it, if they choose not to do it then it will be there fault.	Position	Ineffective
2a44201ed84c	D4BFB840A534	The students that have done there community service hours will not have to go though a struggle to do it later in life and that they care to help other will bring good.	Claim	Adequate
3ec6c9225389	D4BFB840A534	The ones who choose that they have things better to do then community service they will later in life learn that they should have done it a long time ago. This i something i will be willing to do is because i am smart enough to know that i have a better chance to get a good job faster.	Evidence	Adequate
c3d3141a1d8f	D4BFB840A534	I have also thought the ones who is also willing to there community service, some are not able to finds things to do so me and other students and you should get together and help out the ones who are willing but don't know what to do.	Claim	Adequate
9dfcb7e07b4b	D4BFB840A534	Like we can set up a rally and other thing that will help to get other going and moving. We can also probably change the minds of others to do things by making it fun for others that is not intesterd.	Evidence	Adequate
e69859661f35	D4D35DDC74EB	It is my belief that our community could use community service	Position	Ineffective
45780ab9d3d2	D4D35DDC74EB	it helps our school as it not only provides students with a ambition to help their city, but it shows them how good it feels to do something helpful.	Claim	Adequate
9ba6b28d8eb6	D4D35DDC74EB	Also, if the students are out there helping then they may inspire others to do the same.	Claim	Adequate
9673f1d6a8b7	D4D35DDC74EB	As long as they are out there they aren't wasting away with their lives and succumbing to peer pressure, anything is better.	Evidence	Adequate
81c07a44ffbf	D4D35DDC74EB	The feeling to help the environment around us is what we look up to so, not only are we doing ourselves good, we also do good to the young ones that look up to and respect us so that one day they may also aspire to help the environment around them	Claim	Adequate
546e7c9e7d9d	D4D35DDC74EB	There are of course dangers that come along with the tough job of helping our community, an example would be, predators prowling the area	Counterclaim	Adequate
71e8da098be0	D4D35DDC74EB	this shows that we would need to protect the students while they are working.	Rebuttal	Adequate
9b7a3ce517d9	D4D35DDC74EB	Also, students may turn a blind eye if they want to help, so they will fit in with their crowd of friends.	Counterclaim	Adequate
684da30716d6	D4D35DDC74EB	With the threat of global warming, the Earth needs all the help it can get, with all the smoking, littering and polluting in general we need to band together and keep our Earth safe. So all in all, it would be a hard project, helping our community and all, but pulling together we would be able to do it. Sincerely, just another student looking out for the Earth,	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ef63ee9c48ef	D50B2015BE66	Lately there has been lots of tense debates on whether to keep Electoral College votes or not.	Lead	Effective
05e05cd0ced6	D50B2015BE66	Well I agree with the citizens who do agree on keeping our votes. Its just rude to take away something we rightfully deserve.	Position	Adequate
030cdebcdfe8	D50B2015BE66	Electors come to the campus or a specific area to give their great speech that appeals to what we want to be done just to get our votes. Well Mr. Senator it isn't ok for you and the others in office to just take away Electral College voting.	Evidence	Ineffective
1ee26cce8992	D50B2015BE66	According to this article written by : The Office of the Fedral register, " the Founding fathers esatblished it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popuar vote of qualifed citizens." that little bit of information says a popular vote I believe the Electoral College is that popular vote. After the electors are selected and meet to discuss who would be Preident and Vice President but also need to count the Electoral votes. Not only does the congress count the electoral votes , there is 538 electors but at least 270 votes are required to elect the preisdent.	Evidence	Adequate
af366551995c	D50B2015BE66	In another article it explains how the year of "2000 was a fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." There is a example Al Gore he won the popular vote but not the presidency .And that majority would have preferred a direct election. Also the electoral voters system voted slate, an example given from the story was if I lived in Texas I would vote for Jonh Kerry, then vote for slate of 34 democratic electorsthat pledged to Kerrry.	Evidence	Ineffective
57751f10cdd4	D50B2015BE66	Even with great arguments of wiping out Electoral votes , it will still remain "unfair outdated and irrational	Counterclaim	Ineffective
bd389e588c33	D50B2015BE66	" I see a picture which shows the number of electroal votes that each state is granted. Some states are granted more than other states but that doesn't stop them from voting. There are fueds over the outcome,picking the president, then goes into the swing states, Big states, and run-off elections .	Evidence	Ineffective
f86e8dc1bd2d	D50B2015BE66	Now the certainty of outcome of a Electoral vote its not likey to beat a popular vote.	Claim	Adequate
fd7694d7d346	D50B2015BE66	But electoral votes win because those votes are more than popular votes. Back in 2012 voting the article says" Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the poplular votes." and that help Obama win on the winner-take-all basis. Now with picking the president they can't recieved gain of votes where ever there from or very well favored. A president with regional appeal isn't likey to be a successful president. Now those swing states, with the winner-take-all method and being awarded with electoral votes. But voters in the toss-up states are the ones who really pay attention and listen to competators in the campagion. And decide the election. But in the big states electoral college restores the political balance which large states lost by virtue. The bug states get more of the canidate attention than small states because big states has more population.	Evidence	Adequate
c291ac9d8719	D50B2015BE66	Refering back to the article it says electoral avoids the problems with elections , with that no canidate recieves no votes from that majority.	Claim	Adequate
04621f41a164	D50B2015BE66	Imagine back in 1968 with Nixon and Clinton in 1992 both only gotten 43 pecent of the popular votes . The pressure of a run-off election is when no canidate wins , it will greatly make things complicated in the presidental elction.	Evidence	Adequate
58a815b2bf13	D50B2015BE66	So no Senator you and your fellow peers whom decided to eliminate electoral votes is dispicable. When we actually have a chance to vote you take it away. Its very clear that without the electoral votes it woud be more than just presidental complication it would also be complication with decideing electors, presidntal electors and the big states who canidates get there precious votes from would have a hard time winning. I agree to keeping the Electoral College vote and not to change it to no popular vote because popular vote over rules most of the time. So please over think your decsion with other senators and keep Electoral College votes.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
6024d8d2f310	D52ADC09CF36	First of all, the Electoral College is regarrded as a non-democratic method of selecting a president that should be over powered by declaring the canidate who gets the most popular votes the winner.	Position	Adequate
2e334e9e9df6	D52ADC09CF36	The Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense, it is the electors who elect the president, not the people.	Evidence	Adequate
bb4917c489c0	D52ADC09CF36	The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution.	Evidence	Ineffective
ed403dabd731	D52ADC09CF36	So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential canidates in a campaign than a small state does. Most people vote for a presidant just because everyone else did, his/her race, his/her gender, and other things like that. Voting for that presidant with no knowlage about them or what they are capable of. But people tend to vote for that president out of majority because if 50% of the largest state voted "yes" for this president then we vote for him and then he/she is now president and is not doing anything right and	Evidence	Ineffective
0d591c6b577a	D52ADC09CF36	they think that if you take away this or you do that it will solve the problem. But it won't, it'll only make things worse and upset a lot of people.	Claim	Ineffective
d32dc394a95c	D52ADC09CF36	Under the electoral college system, voters vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors ? They can be anyome not holding public office. Sometimes statee conversations, sometimes the presidential candidates themsleves.	Evidence	Adequate
4a42f965465f	D52ADC09CF36	The single best argument against the electoral college is that we might call the disaster factor	Claim	Adequate
c9ba08e288d5	D545B7CB039D	I feel that we should change the Electoral collage to a direct vote	Position	Adequate
b2a24c7010ca	D545B7CB039D	As the author states in source 2 "Under the Electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors.."	Evidence	Adequate
218c63fd23d8	D545B7CB039D	I believe the people should have a better say in who gets to run the USA. We should aboilish the electoral collage because people need to be able to vote for the president himself not his slate of electors.	Claim	Effective
c8203a7988da	D545B7CB039D	Also some electors don`t actually vote for who they are representing,	Claim	Adequate
4637710150cc	D545B7CB039D	And the electoral collage is just not fair.	Claim	Adequate
d5f286e9b143	D545B7CB039D	The people should have a better say in who their president gets to be. They shouldn`t be voting for the Slate electors, but should be voting for the president	Claim	Adequate
29cc62e9deaf	D545B7CB039D	Sometimes the votes get overulled by the popular vote. The electors really only focus on the swing states. That`s just not right at all.	Evidence	Ineffective
4b3c2b263543	D545B7CB039D	Belive it or not some of the electors dont even vote for the president they are representing	Claim	Adequate
db8853b0a975	D545B7CB039D	It doesn`t make any sense to do that. The electors should be voting for who they represent. That just increases my points value. The people should be able to vote for who they want.	Evidence	Ineffective
23b03b5ab353	D545B7CB039D	The electoral collage is just unfair. The state legislators pick the electors, and some of those electors could always defy the qill of the people	Claim	Adequate
30803013397b	D545B7CB039D	It is unfair to the voters mainly because of the winner take all system, They mainly only focus on the swing states. Sometimes people get confused about the electors anf vote for the wrong canidate.	Evidence	Adequate
a6565c5f7a29	D545B7CB039D	Many people can`t figure out if they want to get rid of the Electoral collage are keep it in place. The Electoral collage should be gotten rid of because the people should have a say, and some elecotrs are not loyal and can go agaisnt the will of the people. In the wise words of Bob Dole "Abolish the electoral collage!"	Concluding Statement	Adequate
eec98049ebf6	D5667559AD62	Have you wondered if the face on mars was aliens or a landform? If you did im going to help you answer that question that you have beenn wondering. I used to want to know what the face on mars really was NASA said it was a landform but reporters, people in movies, and in magazines thought it was aliens. Who would you believe someone who has actually been studying about it for the longest and went to school for it or your favorite director. I thought it was aliens too because of all the magazines and movies i had seen about it but they were all jumping to conlusions. So then i decided to do a little research myself. After i started researching i started to write articles and put them online or in the newspaper, and anywhere else that i could	Lead	Adequate
d44a4f288538	D5667559AD62	During all of my research i found out that it actually is a landform.	Position	Adequate
1547d7e2cc87	D5667559AD62	As in the article it says not all scientists beleived it was an alien im not saying none of them did but some of them didnt	Claim	Adequate
69b4eeba3486	D5667559AD62	eventually i got a call from NASA they wanted me to join them. They said my work was outstanding and they would love to work with me, my immediate answer was yes. My immediate answer was yes because NASA was my dream job even when i was younger i wanted to be in NASA.	Evidence	Ineffective
5f885eb0f0ec	D5667559AD62	We began to research even more traveling in space trying to find more clues.	Claim	Ineffective
6fc738c61dbd	D5667559AD62	We had no luck for quite some time until... we had a storm and after that we went back to look and there was another face. We immediately documented the photos and got to writing so we could publish it.	Evidence	Ineffective
5932f9b6805b	D5667559AD62	Everyone believed the movie stars and all those other people becasue they have lots of money but they didnt think about intelligence	Claim	Ineffective
dca60cd4d70a	D5667559AD62	NASA has lots of it i believed the rich people to at first,but i failed to see the intelligence until i started researcing on my own. When I joined NASA i really found the intelligence now im employee of the month for coming up with the idea to go back.	Evidence	Ineffective
754a3669cf2d	D5667559AD62	Everyone else had given up becasue they were upset because they felt as if they let people down. So I decided to go back one more time, and i found what we all were looking for!	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
6eee38c7f391	D584B293A28E	Electoral college should go away. electoral college is unfair	Position	Adequate
c405bfbd5297	D584B293A28E	each party picks a slate of electors,although it only takes trust to pick that elector it is unfair because it is what the people want. there are 4 reaons why electoral college shouldnt be used today. one may be that votes arent from people and votes are only elected by the electors,and the polular vote most likley always win. which means that people vote for the elector and the highest votes from one state to the elector,the president now has that state and now has votes from it. this is why ecltoral college shouldnt be used today.	Evidence	Adequate
bf7e518e8f9c	D584B293A28E	it is unfair that we cant vote for our own president and the electors get to choose.	Claim	Adequate
dd51fb0e1e81	D584B293A28E	one reason why electoral college is bad for the people is because of the thing called disastor factor. this is a bad affect to the voting	Claim	Adequate
7543b4776c66	D584B293A28E	this happen in 1960 and was with John F. kennedy. what happen was the state legislatures are technically responsible for the electors and that the electors could always tell the people what they want. this was a key factorbut,what to fiasco did he helped changed everything. and here to today we still use electoral college. although we still use fiasco method it is getting better but still is a disastor and i think we should just make something that the people want. this woild be better and maybe an easier way to choose a president.	Evidence	Adequate
bc51eaf6a318	D584B293A28E	another unfair subject that electoral college does for voting is the prospect of tie	Claim	Adequate
96016bc3e3ad	D584B293A28E	this is a method in which only states with a certain amount of people allowed to vite. this is an unfair method because, for example hawaii has only a little amount of people and cant vote. also many other states cannot vote because of there population. this is very unfair and should be stopped. every state should be able vote. and again there is only one vote for each state and this method should be voted by state but by people to get a better examnation of what people want. since each state only cast one vote it is the senates job to pretty much vote for the elector. we should let the people vote the people vote themsleves so there is a more accurate vote,than just a single vote for the whole state.	Evidence	Adequate
d6f5b7dc35dd	D584B293A28E	another reason why the electoral college is unfair is because of the winner takes it all method in each state	Claim	Adequate

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the Electoral College must be abolished because it does not properly refelct the views of the nation.

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Citizens' wishes will not always be equivalent to what the electors vote for. This occurs partly because of the winner-take-all system. In this system, the winner of the popular vote in an individual state wins all of the electoral votes a state has. According to the Office of the Federal Register, all but two states use this system. These two states are Nebraska and Maine. As a result of the winner-take-all system, it is possible that a presidential candidate loses the overall popular vote, but wins more electoral votes and thus wins the election. This occurance happened in the infamous 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to George W. Bush by a mere five electoral votes. If the public indicated they wanted Al Gore as president, why should Bush have won due to this unfair system? It simply doesn't make sense. The winner-take-all system also results in political campaigns to focus their efforts in only certain regions. Some states very predictably vote either for the Republican candidate or for the Democratic candidate. Take Texas, for instance, which has traditionally always voted red. A Democratic candidate knows he should not focus his campaign in Texas, because he realizes his best efforts won't allow him to win the popular vote there and thus win the electoral votes. Because of the tendencies of certain states, many electoral votes are practically predetermined. The states which do not typically only vote in favor of one side are labelled "swing states". With the way the Electoral College works, the few states which are a toss-up carry the most weight. Presidential candidates will usually spend most of their time in these swing states, and very little time in others. For example, in the 2000 election, seventeen states were not visited by either candidate. Supporters of the Electoral College view the disproportional focus of campaigns as a positive. According to Richard A. Posner's article in favor of this corrupt system, "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constituion..." (21)

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While it might seem reasonable for larger states to have a larger impact than smaller states,

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it simply isn't a fair way to go about having an election. Voters should each have the same impact, and they would have exactly that in a direct election

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Presently, voters in Florida, for instance, have more impact on the election than a voter in Wyoming.

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Supporters also claim the focus on swing states is beneficial because residents of swing states should be more politically informed due to their state's importance in the election

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This notion is simply a fabrication in order to make the Electoral College seem as if it causes America to be more informed, because there would be no need for residents of specific states to pay closer attention to candidates than residents of others if a direct election were to take place. The Electoral College does not properly reflect the desire of the nation's population, and thus should be replaced.

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In retrospect, the Electoral College must be abolished. It is an inherently unfair system and it does not reflect the views of American voters

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I think if a student has a c average you should give him or a chance

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It would be un fair

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if a student did his or her best and all the could give is a c then you should let them play. A lot of students aren't able to pull of a b average so give those students a chance to play sports.

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a c average isn't that bad they are still passing

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but they can play sports and anything else they want.

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there are so many students that only have sports some people that don't have sports they end up doing nothing

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People drop out of school cause they think if they don't have the grades to play sports they cant do anything with their life. So i know you don't want that to happen

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Community service is a very important to me because its the right ting to do

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I would rather drive down the road and not see plastic bags and beer bottles on the side of the road.

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I want my community to look beautiful. Not only my community but the whole town.

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Cleaning the road isn't the only form of community service. If people don't want to get dirty, the they can go help tutor kids, or read at the library. They can go to the homeless shelter or Faith Missions and help organize or feed people. They can come up to the school and help my dad, the janitor, clean the school. There is many things other than cleaning the road that they can do.

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kids should want to help out.

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they don't have the incinive to help because its not required. Honestly, think about this. Jesus helped because he cared. God did not tell Him to come down here and do nothing. He told Him to help the sick, feed the hungry, heal the lepers, and care for the weak. Jesus did all of this stuff and much more because He cared about this stuff, plus He had the incinive to do it because His father told Him to.

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If you would make this a requirement for students

Concluding Statement

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sure some would have there moans and disagreements and maybe not do anything to help

Counterclaim

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In this essay i will be explaining the difference and similarities and the pros and cons of the electoral college and opposing it

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I personally like the idea of having the people themselves vote

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because the electors could change their mind

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because it makes more sense to just vote for who you think should be president

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one reason to pick electors is because its less people to keep count of. Having these electors is another step in the voting procces but it keeps things going easier.

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In conlusion, i dont agree with this, there is almost nothing i can think of that is good about this, unfortunutely.

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Secondly, The great points of having the people themselves vote (which i agree with)

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One reason, is that electors can change their mind and vote for whoever they want and it could completely change the election. Secondly, This requires the president to go to all states exculding no one! This way all states feel equal and they feel like all of their votes matter. Another great reason is that they focus more on toss up states where people tend to pay more attention. Another good reason, is that bigger states get more attention. This is important because he can reach out to more people rather than a smaller state.

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In conclusion, I think having people do the elections themselves is the better option

Concluding Statement

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I am writing this letter to convince you that you should not do this policy change.

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There is many students that may have a high C, and it wouldn't be fair if they didn't get to play sports because of it. Read on and I'm going to explain why you shouldn't do this.

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This is not a good idea because it wouldn't be fair to some students if you take there privileges away from them because of one bad grade.

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I specifically think that this situation is by far not fair at all. For example, if a student had just one bad grade, and it was a high C, they still would not have any of the privileges to participate in any sport activities. I am telling you not to do this to kids because, it is not right to take this away from them. Maybe if they start participating in other school activities such as, math counts, the academic team, and so on, this could help kids bring up there grade in certain areas. So in my opinion I think you shouldn't do this to children just because of one grade.

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Some more of my ideas, is that you should let anybody who wants to participate in sports still do it if they have a bad grade. You should let them play any sport they wanted to but if there grades start to drop, not let them anymore because this means they are to focused on sports to do there school work.

Evidence

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These are some reasons, that you shouldn't do the policy change.

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I believe that all students should be required to do community service, But i also believe that students should not have to be forced to do it, if they choose not to do it then it will be there fault.

Position

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The students that have done there community service hours will not have to go though a struggle to do it later in life and that they care to help other will bring good.

Claim

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The ones who choose that they have things better to do then community service they will later in life learn that they should have done it a long time ago. This i something i will be willing to do is because i am smart enough to know that i have a better chance to get a good job faster.

Evidence

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I have also thought the ones who is also willing to there community service, some are not able to finds things to do so me and other students and you should get together and help out the ones who are willing but don't know what to do.

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Like we can set up a rally and other thing that will help to get other going and moving. We can also probably change the minds of others to do things by making it fun for others that is not intesterd.

Evidence

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It is my belief that our community could use community service

Position

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it helps our school as it not only provides students with a ambition to help their city, but it shows them how good it feels to do something helpful.

Claim

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Also, if the students are out there helping then they may inspire others to do the same.

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As long as they are out there they aren't wasting away with their lives and succumbing to peer pressure, anything is better.

Evidence

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The feeling to help the environment around us is what we look up to so, not only are we doing ourselves good, we also do good to the young ones that look up to and respect us so that one day they may also aspire to help the environment around them

Claim

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There are of course dangers that come along with the tough job of helping our community, an example would be, predators prowling the area

Counterclaim

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this shows that we would need to protect the students while they are working.

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Also, students may turn a blind eye if they want to help, so they will fit in with their crowd of friends.

Counterclaim

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With the threat of global warming, the Earth needs all the help it can get, with all the smoking, littering and polluting in general we need to band together and keep our Earth safe. So all in all, it would be a hard project, helping our community and all, but pulling together we would be able to do it. Sincerely, just another student looking out for the Earth,

Concluding Statement

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Lately there has been lots of tense debates on whether to keep Electoral College votes or not.

Lead

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Well I agree with the citizens who do agree on keeping our votes. Its just rude to take away something we rightfully deserve.

Position

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Electors come to the campus or a specific area to give their great speech that appeals to what we want to be done just to get our votes. Well Mr. Senator it isn't ok for you and the others in office to just take away Electral College voting.

Evidence

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According to this article written by : The Office of the Fedral register, " the Founding fathers esatblished it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popuar vote of qualifed citizens." that little bit of information says a popular vote I believe the Electoral College is that popular vote. After the electors are selected and meet to discuss who would be Preident and Vice President but also need to count the Electoral votes. Not only does the congress count the electoral votes , there is 538 electors but at least 270 votes are required to elect the preisdent.

Evidence

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In another article it explains how the year of "2000 was a fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." There is a example Al Gore he won the popular vote but not the presidency .And that majority would have preferred a direct election. Also the electoral voters system voted slate, an example given from the story was if I lived in Texas I would vote for Jonh Kerry, then vote for slate of 34 democratic electorsthat pledged to Kerrry.

Evidence

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Even with great arguments of wiping out Electoral votes , it will still remain "unfair outdated and irrational

Counterclaim

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" I see a picture which shows the number of electroal votes that each state is granted. Some states are granted more than other states but that doesn't stop them from voting. There are fueds over the outcome,picking the president, then goes into the swing states, Big states, and run-off elections .

Evidence

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Now the certainty of outcome of a Electoral vote its not likey to beat a popular vote.

Claim

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But electoral votes win because those votes are more than popular votes. Back in 2012 voting the article says" Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the poplular votes." and that help Obama win on the winner-take-all basis. Now with picking the president they can't recieved gain of votes where ever there from or very well favored. A president with regional appeal isn't likey to be a successful president. Now those swing states, with the winner-take-all method and being awarded with electoral votes. But voters in the toss-up states are the ones who really pay attention and listen to competators in the campagion. And decide the election. But in the big states electoral college restores the political balance which large states lost by virtue. The bug states get more of the canidate attention than small states because big states has more population.

Evidence

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Refering back to the article it says electoral avoids the problems with elections , with that no canidate recieves no votes from that majority.

Claim

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Imagine back in 1968 with Nixon and Clinton in 1992 both only gotten 43 pecent of the popular votes . The pressure of a run-off election is when no canidate wins , it will greatly make things complicated in the presidental elction.

Evidence

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So no Senator you and your fellow peers whom decided to eliminate electoral votes is dispicable. When we actually have a chance to vote you take it away. Its very clear that without the electoral votes it woud be more than just presidental complication it would also be complication with decideing electors, presidntal electors and the big states who canidates get there precious votes from would have a hard time winning. I agree to keeping the Electoral College vote and not to change it to no popular vote because popular vote over rules most of the time. So please over think your decsion with other senators and keep Electoral College votes.

Concluding Statement

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First of all, the Electoral College is regarrded as a non-democratic method of selecting a president that should be over powered by declaring the canidate who gets the most popular votes the winner.

Position

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The Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense, it is the electors who elect the president, not the people.

Evidence

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The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution.

Evidence

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So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential canidates in a campaign than a small state does. Most people vote for a presidant just because everyone else did, his/her race, his/her gender, and other things like that. Voting for that presidant with no knowlage about them or what they are capable of. But people tend to vote for that president out of majority because if 50% of the largest state voted "yes" for this president then we vote for him and then he/she is now president and is not doing anything right and

Evidence

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they think that if you take away this or you do that it will solve the problem. But it won't, it'll only make things worse and upset a lot of people.

Claim

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Under the electoral college system, voters vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors ? They can be anyome not holding public office. Sometimes statee conversations, sometimes the presidential candidates themsleves.

Evidence

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The single best argument against the electoral college is that we might call the disaster factor

Claim

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I feel that we should change the Electoral collage to a direct vote

Position

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As the author states in source 2 "Under the Electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors.."

Evidence

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I believe the people should have a better say in who gets to run the USA. We should aboilish the electoral collage because people need to be able to vote for the president himself not his slate of electors.

Claim

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Also some electors don`t actually vote for who they are representing,

Claim

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And the electoral collage is just not fair.

Claim

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The people should have a better say in who their president gets to be. They shouldn`t be voting for the Slate electors, but should be voting for the president

Claim

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Sometimes the votes get overulled by the popular vote. The electors really only focus on the swing states. That`s just not right at all.

Evidence

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Belive it or not some of the electors dont even vote for the president they are representing

Claim

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It doesn`t make any sense to do that. The electors should be voting for who they represent. That just increases my points value. The people should be able to vote for who they want.

Evidence

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The electoral collage is just unfair. The state legislators pick the electors, and some of those electors could always defy the qill of the people

Claim

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It is unfair to the voters mainly because of the winner take all system, They mainly only focus on the swing states. Sometimes people get confused about the electors anf vote for the wrong canidate.

Evidence

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Many people can`t figure out if they want to get rid of the Electoral collage are keep it in place. The Electoral collage should be gotten rid of because the people should have a say, and some elecotrs are not loyal and can go agaisnt the will of the people. In the wise words of Bob Dole "Abolish the electoral collage!"

Concluding Statement

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Have you wondered if the face on mars was aliens or a landform? If you did im going to help you answer that question that you have beenn wondering. I used to want to know what the face on mars really was NASA said it was a landform but reporters, people in movies, and in magazines thought it was aliens. Who would you believe someone who has actually been studying about it for the longest and went to school for it or your favorite director. I thought it was aliens too because of all the magazines and movies i had seen about it but they were all jumping to conlusions. So then i decided to do a little research myself. After i started researching i started to write articles and put them online or in the newspaper, and anywhere else that i could

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During all of my research i found out that it actually is a landform.

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As in the article it says not all scientists beleived it was an alien im not saying none of them did but some of them didnt

Claim

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eventually i got a call from NASA they wanted me to join them. They said my work was outstanding and they would love to work with me, my immediate answer was yes. My immediate answer was yes because NASA was my dream job even when i was younger i wanted to be in NASA.

Evidence

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We began to research even more traveling in space trying to find more clues.

Claim

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We had no luck for quite some time until... we had a storm and after that we went back to look and there was another face. We immediately documented the photos and got to writing so we could publish it.

Evidence

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Everyone believed the movie stars and all those other people becasue they have lots of money but they didnt think about intelligence

Claim

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NASA has lots of it i believed the rich people to at first,but i failed to see the intelligence until i started researcing on my own. When I joined NASA i really found the intelligence now im employee of the month for coming up with the idea to go back.

Evidence

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Everyone else had given up becasue they were upset because they felt as if they let people down. So I decided to go back one more time, and i found what we all were looking for!

Concluding Statement

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Electoral college should go away. electoral college is unfair

Position

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each party picks a slate of electors,although it only takes trust to pick that elector it is unfair because it is what the people want. there are 4 reaons why electoral college shouldnt be used today. one may be that votes arent from people and votes are only elected by the electors,and the polular vote most likley always win. which means that people vote for the elector and the highest votes from one state to the elector,the president now has that state and now has votes from it. this is why ecltoral college shouldnt be used today.

Evidence

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it is unfair that we cant vote for our own president and the electors get to choose.

Claim

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one reason why electoral college is bad for the people is because of the thing called disastor factor. this is a bad affect to the voting

Claim

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this happen in 1960 and was with John F. kennedy. what happen was the state legislatures are technically responsible for the electors and that the electors could always tell the people what they want. this was a key factorbut,what to fiasco did he helped changed everything. and here to today we still use electoral college. although we still use fiasco method it is getting better but still is a disastor and i think we should just make something that the people want. this woild be better and maybe an easier way to choose a president.

Evidence

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another unfair subject that electoral college does for voting is the prospect of tie

Claim

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this is a method in which only states with a certain amount of people allowed to vite. this is an unfair method because, for example hawaii has only a little amount of people and cant vote. also many other states cannot vote because of there population. this is very unfair and should be stopped. every state should be able vote. and again there is only one vote for each state and this method should be voted by state but by people to get a better examnation of what people want. since each state only cast one vote it is the senates job to pretty much vote for the elector. we should let the people vote the people vote themsleves so there is a more accurate vote,than just a single vote for the whole state.

Evidence

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another reason why the electoral college is unfair is because of the winner takes it all method in each state

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