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uh... i have a question about the u_s_
election uh... bialik grove motive
the completed so this kind of confused
the into the undemocratic
if you're a democrat in the expert
and of course you vote for the
democratic president sort of canada
uh... there's been a child but the
democratic candidate will win pakka
them they've never been the electoral
vote from petco
but without being able to complete bed
and act wide open the guy who win the
popular vote just win look up to be a
record system right so this this uh...
dismisses making very good point and
we've been talking about
the antiquated nature of the electoral
college for a while
initially the electoral college was
established because without it
candidates would focus their time simply
on population centers the big cities and
therefore they would get all the
attention that the voters there would be
able to have the candidates they're ask
questions so on and so forth and more
rural areas would be ignored essentially
uh... making it so that really it was
another an election of between cities
population centers electoral college is
established and then the primary system
came connected with that of having these
primaries including new hampshire iowa
some of the first ones
and those kind of set the tone for
what's going to happen and who are going
to be the candidates so what did that
lead to that left two the big states
being completely ignored candidates
barely campaign in new york a california
for texas says you mentioning but it's
really just flip it around now these
small rural states have disproportionate
power and attention being paid for them
while the population centers are
completely ignored
perfect example if in texas you voted
for president obama you wherever you you
only have the opportunity to offset of
vote of someone voting for mit romney in
texas completely separate from what goes
on in the rest of the country is that
really democratic some people would
argue it isn't what do you think louis
it's a system that has to go
and our main for example put a system
into place where uh... depending on what
percentage of the vote the
the other candidates are to provide the
margin yeah who did not win the state
they might receive
one of the electoral votes of the state
now every stated something like that i'd
think uh... that the balance things out
a little bit more but he should be the
popular vote anytime is that the best
simplest way to be
that basically have a a popular vote
system for each state to change their
rules so that they have proportional
awarding of delegates yes because to
pass a constitutional amendment you need
three-fourths of the states to ratify it
and that's unlikely because more than a
quarter of the states would be against
it cuz there small states and that was
that that they benefit from the current
says they want to keep their power right
it's values for the point out to the
colorado that
uh... the electoral college system has
two aspects were always talking about
one
you know there is that it's an indirect
election we elect electors to go and the
real election is held in january
when uh... the electors actually vote in
the house of representatives so there is
the further baa for their to directly
electing the politicians exactly so
agree i think we need a new system way
to get system what do you think
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