Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt fourth edition part 8', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter I Reeding 41 level Furthermore. even in cs earfest days the United States was a very arge country stretchng aver 1 600 kilometers ci Crestline. Comnv niiotion And r ii iipotstio i systerm between dsparate parts of the country were CJCremdy poor rd so running campaigns national . rather tten on a stete-by-stete Lxs . . would l- n f been quite difficult So the Electoral Co lege was provided as a solution But neither of these factors g any longe the case. Americans have developed a very itrorg sense of national identity ard demand to play a direct role in the selection of tteir leaders Mass meefe and powerful party organizations moke regional pokeal campaigns easy to conduct. But there are further probterns with the Etectceal Cofege system. Because presidential canddates know that they only reed electoral vote- not pepu o votes they avoid campaigning in sma states or states where they know tteir opponents are ikety to win creating a gulf between themselves and A significant fraction of the electorate Furthermore many members of poetical minorities don t bother to vote at all because they blow that tte canddate they support v on t wn in their state anyway. Both situations have the effect of reduong citizen representation and form obstodes to a healthy democracy. Tte final problem wth tte deacral system is by far the largest one. Because of es Vûnna tato-oT nature the Pectoral College can ætuaty e ect a candidate who received fewr popular votes than the opposition altogether thwarting tte purpose of hcldng an election ri tte finrt place. This unfcrtunMc circumstance has in tact come about several times in the nacicn s history most recently in the 2000 ejection of Gcorçe W. Bush. Its orignal juitifkations ojtrncded is operations inscrutable and is effects at odds with tte goa s of a dcmocr-xy the Electoral College is an institution that some viwM Ifcc to Abandon. In its place the unted States steu d adopt a modem system of electing tte president cne that will .
