text: Popular votes are more ideal because you actually have a chance of the person you voted for actually becoming president. If there's a tie, re-counts are established. Popular votes also don't have "disaster factors". This also has a less chance of a dispute erupting like it did in 2000 with the electorial vote. With popular vote, you are guaranteed that you know who you're voting for and you don't have the possible chance that you've just voted for the guy you highly dislike. Popular votes had also won the election for President Barack Obama. Where if it were electorial college, it would have taken a long time for the winner of the vote is announced.    My response is that I think that completing summer projects over the summer should be student-designed. When you take a long summer break, sometimes you can forget details you learned from schools because you have not been to school for so long. Also I think it is a good idea because doing this can give students more responsolities to have will they have fun during the summer.