text: The use of the Electoral College allows for a more certain winner over popular vote, therefore avoiding election crisis. Although there was one "fiasco" in 2000, as Bradford Plumer calls it in Source 2, the chance of this happening is very small since "even a very slight pulrality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state." (Posner Source 3) For example, in 2012, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral vote while he recieved only 51.3 percent of the popular vote.(Posner Source 3). A 1.3 percent from a tie is much, much more close than the 11.7 percent that that the Electoral College gives us.