Noah Aniser
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/opinion/trump-electoral-college-abolish.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
How Trump Could Win Again, Even if He Loses
The article is about the Electoral College and if it is a fair democratic system. The electoral College is the 230-year-old election system which allows a presidential candidate to win an election with less votes than his opponent. Donald trump’s 2016 victory is only one out of five examples but the second one in the last twenty years. The author raises the question if the election system is even fair and more importantly democratic.
His answer is no because it wasn’t designed by brilliant men, yet the U.S. stick to it for centuries even though it just isn’t fair. It doesn’t matter if you are a republican or a democrat, because it is about the worth of your vote as a citizen. A democratic country is a country where the citizens decide who the leaders are and here that’s only partly true. By voting, you express your opinion about who should rule and lead this country but through the electoral college system your vote doesn’t count the way it should.
The author itself is very enthusiastic about that matter. He even wrote a book called ‘Let the People Pick The President: the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.” The article basically summarizes the idea behind the book. Your vote should count the way it is supposed to count.
I think that article could include more information about the election system as a whole and how it works but other than that, it is a really short and good article. It covers a topic that matters to everyone in the U.S. and that makes it news. The majority of the Americans experienced at the last election how it feels to lose even though you have more votes. To me, there is a need for change.
The headline sounds really interesting because there are several ways of how it could be interpreted. So, the headline really makes me want to read the article. Overall, I think it is a really good article that expresses the content in just a few words.
So, it’s definitely worth reading it.