Electoral College Khan Academy

Electing a president.

Electoral college khan academy. Or at least the different budgetary proposals on the table from the administration from the republicans and what will happen if they don t come into agreement which was the fiscal cliff. The electoral college is a body of electors established by the united states constitution which forms every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the united states the electoral college consists of 538 electors and an absolute majority of at least 270 electoral votes is required to win the election. Practice your skills in this quiz on the processes of us presidential elections including primaries caucuses party conventions and the electoral college if you re seeing this message it means we re having trouble loading external resources on our website.

Watch the next lesson. Our mission is to provide a free world class education to anyone anywhere. Both of the major parties and we re talking about the united states here hold a national convention during the summer before the actual general election.

In the last video we gave a basic outline of the different scenarios that might play out in 2013. How we elect our president in the united states. If i get 51 or even if i get 50 1 just a slight majority of the votes in california i will get all of the votes for california in the electoral college.

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