in the beginning
and there were big states
and little states
virginian delaware
pennsylvania rhode island georgia new
hampshire
the little states
want to make sure that their voices were
drowned out by the
big states
that they could mean marginalized to
push uh... the way altogether
and i think it's see themselves as equal
parts of the american government so
the framers of the constitution
put together protections for the small
states
that document constitution
giving them down a little bit more on a
per capita basis than the big states
he was good to be a small state citizen
so let's
six hundred thousand people in the state
of vermont
and they have two senators one
represented three people represented in
congress
at soho lot and the same thing in
wyoming
that's a whole lot more than the
californian
you know yet but thirty million people
in california
close to that at some incredible number
of people
and
that into centers
so at one of one of
uh... was that he state one of these
these two ways that
because the kind of compromise that was
necessary to get the small states
why delaware are valid to say yes we
will join the big states like
pennsylvania massachusetts
and then be partying
one was that you have to stay with some
small that they only had one represented
in the house representatives as lamb in
his right now vermont is right now they
would still get to full senators
and the second was that each small state
would also get an additional two votes
which is represented by the senators
in the electoral college
for most of our nation's history the
minority never
or abused these privileges
though we have recently seen a series of
abuses of the senate filibuster
by their vote
but the electoral college wasn't created
just to protect
the minority
buzzword it's really interesting
it was also there just like the second
amendment in the first
parade the first purpose of the second
mana
was to block the possibility of america
grandstanding army
good luck on that right
the uh... the but
the second purpose of the second them up
was to protect the institution of
slavery in the southern states and that
was also
this big state little state thing the
political problem the flu slave states
were facing
when the constitution was written was
that they were very few white males
legal voters of the day
living
in many of those slave states
specially as you got farther and farther
south down into south carolina in
georgia there were a lot of slaves
but they were a lot about
not so many white males
so if the bay which is why they had a
slate patrols so if the president was
elected
by a national popular vote
which is what
james madison originally argued for when
the constitution is being put together
the slave states would not be contribute
in any states to who
read that many boats to becomes
president st
and the southern slave owners lived in
constant fear
not only their own slaves but also the
some northerner president might try to
undo slavery surly
iran lincoln actually did you know
so the slave states and the small states
the compromise for them was the
electoral college
c get extra votes
they they would have lacked if it was
just a national shel popular vote which
brings us to today
now at the republican party has been
hijacked by the billionaire class a very
small one percent sliver of our
population they've taken
huge unprecedented
steps to abuse the electoral college
in the first out of idea the starting
point for the specialty bush vehicle
but in the first election since citizens
united
hundreds of millions of dollars outside
spectrum
genuine american all occur spiked coat
brothers sheldon adelson
but the republicans in control of
traditionally blues states
the ones that they had targeted back
after bush legal
and russians as rationing of the day
that a bush league or the supreme court
came right out and said
people in essays do not have a right to
constitutional right to vote for
president states
who hold at the rate will let's read the
game
so pennsylvania wisconsin ohio michigan
their own
so what they do date they spent the the
oligarchy sts started spending a lot of
money
at the state level to pull republicans
in charge of the state legislatures and
the governor's office
and once they got back
with the
census of two thousand and the census of
two thousand tembo successes to doesn't
end
their holdings gerrymandered the
congressional districts to increase the
number of safe republican seats
and fracture the democratic seats
and that's one reason why the house
democratic candidates
got more than a million votes one i have
more million votes than the house
republican candidates run the nation
western member
but the republicans still run the house
representatives
as a jury matter
and republicans are now using these
gerrymandered states to push
breathtaking going in for jim
they're trying to remove the twenty
sixteen presidential election here now
him twenty thirty
instead of a winner take all system
republicans want virginia's electoral
college first doled out based on which
presidential candidate one each
congressional district an extra two
votes
go into that states popular vote winner
it's kinda like valla author of the
darbone and i will make it seem like it
sir
uh... regarding the wisconsin ohio
pennsylvania michigan they are all
considering similar changes
and uh...
r_n_c_ chairman spree this
has thrown his support behind it
sabi an advantage will the republicans
have consider this
present obama swept the six main
battleground states of florida michigan
ohio pennsylvania virginia wisconsin
last election all six states
all republican governors he won every
single item says it's a winner take all
system the present at a hundred and six
electoral college votes ronnie had zero
president every one of those states
internment just over six states
if this new schema them placed before
the last election
and the president would have only gotten
forty-seven electoral college francois
mitterrand he would've gotten fifty nine
even though he lost the popular vote in
every single state
they have all the statesman a she made
those changes
today
we would have been you know
we'd be on the back into the weekend
which
president mit romney given inaugural
address
even though he lost the national vote by
millions just like george bush did in
two thousand or stability law special
bhobeck about a half ago
billionaires and republicans they only
know that there are a minority in
america they're hard right bigotry
toward gays in women turns up young
voters there's enough phobia mistrusted
non-whites it turned out the growing
minority electorate
reaganomics has been exposes a scam
so today the majority of us at the do
something before the billionaires take
over completely so what is it
we need to scrap the electoral college
altogether
i mean that's it
it should be replaced with more
democracy and national popular vote
modeling likes our president based on
which canada gets the most votes
nationwide plain and simple
nine states very pass national popular
vote laws
so they're electors willful for
whichever candidate wins national
popular vote
once
annul states have done so the two
hundred and seventy votes are counted
for
california maryland illinois a bunch of
states nine states adonis
so
we need to get involved in this national
popular vote thing
so if this trend continues an estate
sign up to bring a combined electoral
college coach two hundred seventy
the electoral college we'll basically
dot
you don't have to amend the constitution
speeches dot
now the republicans are working on an
electoral college strategy for twenty
sixteen
democrats
progresses independence should be too
and should be whoever gets the most
votes for president
is president
please send
this is the comma hardman program the
ability to do everything i can to make
sure that that's not the case
but national popular vote for jack and
out
stick it in the doctor ko machine
