The Electoral college is a way of indirect election involving 538 electors that works by each state of the united states has a number of Electoral and is decided by population. Then each election the popular vote goes to one president and that person has to have 270 to win the election.
The Electoral College was created to create a buffer between population and the selection of the president, The other part is that they wanted it to be better for the smaller states to have more votes. Some of the negatives of it are that some of the smaller states that have a smaller population have like 3 votes have about no say in the Election because its not like their states could mean winning or losing.
In 1824 John Quincy Adams won the election even though he didn't win the popular vote or the Electoral vote. In 1888 Benjamin Harrison got 233 and Grover Cleveland 168 even though Harrison did not win the Popular vote.
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