Some reasons why it is considered beneficial:
It contributes to the cohesiveness of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president.
It enhances the status of minority interests.
It contributes to the political stability of the nation by encouraging a two-party system.
It maintains a federal system of government and representation.
However, one of the college's initial benefits has been lost through the expansion and concentration of the US population (and of the elector distribution): it no longer affords an advantage to smaller states, which are marginalized because they cannot influence the outcome of the election.
Additionally, while a two-party system benefits from the electoral college, the country as a whole does not directly benefit from the two-party system. Some political party platforms seem designed more to court certain voters than to properly run the country.
The number of electors is based on the population. Washington, DC is relatively small.
electors does not have a collective noun
Minnesota has 10 electors in the Electoral College.
The electoral college elects the president and vice-president of the US. The electors are elected by popular vote and declare in advance how they will vote if they are elected, so the people choose electors who will vote the way they would vote if they were electors.
The electors of the electoral college officially elect the president. They pledge their vote in advance so once the electors are chosen the outcome of their vote is not in doubt.
I do not know how electors are chosen in Pennsylvania!!!
One elector per senator and representative. So there are 50 states, each with 2 senators, plus 435 representatives, for a total of 535 electors in the Electoral College.
By a body of presidential electors
California has 55 electors. They have two in the senate like every other state. They have 53 in the House of Representatives. They have so many in the House because of their population. Every couple hundread thousand equals one more person in the House.
The State of Alabama is given 9 electors.
al qaida obviously has the most electors.
The Electors