a man and how little has proposed a
ballot initiative in california that
sounds initially like is intended to
make presidential elections in the state
more modern more democratic but it would
in fact make presidential elections
nationwide
almost meaningless if it's allowed to
pass now what it would do
is that would make the electoral votes
of California be distributed
proportionally based on the popular vote
in the state I apologize if that sounds
somewhat arcane the basic idea is that
in the vast majority of cases in america
the winner in the popular vote in that
state receives all its electoral votes
now there are two
exceptions Maine and Nebraska do their
system in a slightly different way the
winners in each congressional district
to get those votes
right now the balance in terms of
democrats
and in republicans and how they get
their electoral votes in presidential
elections
it's a very fine balance that's being
maintained using a combination of
incredibly
arcane electoral rules and procedures
and I love this was to happen and you
were to distribute electoral votes
proportionally based on the popular vote
are back in 2012
Mitt Romney it would have received
twenty electoral votes that would be a
swing of 40 boats from the democrat to
the republican
and if this is allowed to happen if this
ballot initiative passes they could make
it almost impossible
for democrats to win a presidential
election nationally
said sometime over the republican lives
right it so for example in the health
care debate they say
ok we just want you to be able to buy
issues from any state to settle
Inc increase competition the cell so
good that sounds like
gether known the real reason they won be
able to do that is because
then you would all the companies would
go the state with the least amount or
regulations
so they could then go to wake you with
like almost no regulations the stopper
right and republicans is not like they
don't know that they'd do know that
they lie on purpose about competition
when they don't mean that at all
it is the same thing in this case it
sounds so good if you're in California
wait a minute now why should one person
get although you know electoral votes
when
doesn't other guy got so many boats and
those are going to watch the Sun go yep
turns out there for democracy yes sign
me up no but they don't do that in the
red states they're not proposing that in
taxes but they're not proposing an
Oklahoma
yeah we actually we can show you that by
the way this isn't just I
helmick a love California rights
previous the former
the Republican National Committee Chair
Set it's something that a lot of states
that have been consistently blue that
are fully controlled red ought to be
looking at
2020 saying there is that many cases
upstate
woohoo the popular vote would go
democratic
but because the funding coming from
outside the state state legislatures in
many states have actually been
controlled by Republicans traditionally
now what makes it a bad idea is not the
in some sense it's not more democratic
it does as he said it seems to make some
sort of sense
but also he said they're not proposing
an all-state Oklahoma for instance
at seven electoral votes currently
they're not proposing an Oklahoma all 70
those votes go to our
republican who are wins the popular vote
there although there are many Democrats
in oklahoma
similarly South Carolina number nine
votes will continue to go towards
republicans because they're not gonna
make a proportional
in South Carolina despite the fact that
many democrats live in South Carolina
texas also 38 electoral votes
increasingly democratic in fact many
people expected in the next decade
the popular but might actually swing and
go Democratic in a presidential election
it certainly inevitable when you look at
the demographics there a california
currently 55 electoral vote as I said
earlier
20 have them under this system would
have gone to the republican
in 2012 so despite the look if you
actually look into that the scholarly
research what actually happened to redo
this nationwide
it would be a disaster in fact would
mean that presidential candidates
would have to go to even fewer districts
in appealed even fewer states
if you do a proportionally but you need
to have to get to that level just
understand that they're proposing in a
couple key states
to make the president presidential
elections meaningless and
thing that frustrates me the most about
this and the voter fraud accusations
brought republicans were trying around
during the last election is
there so defiant about their policies
and a lot of their pocket policies
especially their social policies
do not whole well with the american
people were becoming more more
progressive when it comes to social
issues
gay rights just one example about
instead of changing when it comes to
that particular issue or any other
social issue that Americans are pulling
differently on
they're just decided you know what let's
throw the election let you ruined the
democratic process
just so we can ensure that our
candidates get elected
and that's prophetic ended sad and you
know what if they have that mentality
good I'm glad they're being defined cuz
they're gonna continue to get voted out
of office
so this is i i know it but I've said
this before the show I'll just make the
point again
you know republicans actually do have
ideas but they're disowning them in a
recent they had
for a couple years with a couple
republican congressman working at an
immigration bill
can bear to do not bring it up and they
came at the republican based
immigration bill not bring it up so now
here's the health care it's their ideas
not cut where disowning them
so they have no idea you have to win
that election
it's usually call the battle Abidi -ism
Jeffrey ideas when the gay
but they're not it's not so now they
just have to suppress the boat
gerrymander their ass off because they
can't win the battle of ideas
without ideas yeah you know with
fundamentalists
no you know whether it's a Taliban or
its Christian fundamentalist
they often thing well if i cant
beat you with ideas like the Taliban did
with the well Malata
guess below Malala you subside
the 2i can be cute idea so miss you in
the face right
and so and with Christians in the
country that a fundamentalist oftentimes
they like
I can't beat the APS in it Ballabh ideas
so
I'm just try to legislate that that my
religion should be
intertwined with the government so I get
to rule
because I if we're getting into a lil it
logical argument well I'm not basing my
argument on logic I'm a loser a
so I don't want to get in a logical
argument so I'm just gonna say no no
it's a Christian nation so we gotta do a
base on my rules
it doesn't matter if they make sense or
not right and so in this case
what I am stunned by is wise previous
just flat out saying in
because there's no wraps left the media
has totally abdicated their
responsibility
and he just said it he said let's only
do it in the red states let's pick
selections
I'm sorry in the blue states San and not
do it in the red states
it's one thing if you see it nationwide
and i actually think that there's
a good argument to be made for
nationwide and that's it and that's a
good debate to have right
that if you said hey everybody we're
doing this in every state and there's a
movement
to do it in every state at the same time
okay but you can't do it state by state
and if a democrat propose that only
Texas do it
I would be against it I think that's
fundamentally unfair
you can't do I you can't do that great
but that but these guys that's what they
have left
to your guys point an engineer right all
they got left is
unfair tactics because they think they
can win the battle of ideas
and they and their losing
demographically as john pointed out
they got nothing left so they got like
smoke and mirrors
