The framers’ of the United States Constitution set forth to ensure that only the best “man” for the job be elected when it came to the President of the United States, this leading to the development of the electoral college. The framers’ wanted to give the American people direct input into who their leader would be. There were options discussed on how to carry out the elections, and it was a compromise based on the better of two options. The first option being a direct popular election with anyone running and possibly winning based on being popular, wealth or influence. Second was an election by Congress where they would be required to assess the people’s desires and vote accordingly to what the people wanted. However, there were fears that Congress would not actually vote accordingly, but vote based on their own wants and it would be an unbalanced method. This led to the compromise and the creation of the Electoral College. (Clayton, 2007) The way the electoral college works is each State gets a number of electors equal to its number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives, plus one for each of its two U.S. Senators and the District of Columbia gets three. “Each elector is allowed one vote and there are currently 538 electors in the United States. For the candidate to win the election they must receive 270 votes from those electors.” (Clayton, 2007) In the case that 270 votes are not awarded the 12th Amendment kicks in and the election is then decided by the House of Representatives. (Longley, 2015) There is a great debate over the Electoral College and a popular vote approach for elections. “The popular voting method would do away with all electors and the voting would allow all citizens to vote directly for the President and Vice-President. It is argued that a direct popular vote would require the candidates to campaign in both big and small states; it would make the election for president and vice president