text: It is possible for the candidate with the most electoral votes not win the national vote. This incident is very unlikly to happen but in 2000 Gore had won the most popualr vote then Bush but had fever electoral votes (source 3). The electoral college has been around for a long time. Many people think it is an out dated way for electing a presidnet and Vice president (source2). The electoral college has been a sucessful way to choose our presidnets in the past. The elctoral college avoids the problem of elections in ehich no canidat receives a majoirty of the popual votes. Many argue that the electoral college method of slecting a president may turn off potenial voters. But the people who do vote are people who wanr a express a political preference rather than people who want to think that their ine singal vote will decide the over-all winner of the election.(source 3)