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B1 Mittelstufe Englisch 8:09 Educational

The Electoral College, explained

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if you watch the news during a

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presidential election you'll hear a lot

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of this what do the national polls look

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like hillary clinton's national league

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nationally joe biden is currently ahead

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but these national polls don't actually

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tell you who's going to win throw the

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national polls out the window they don't

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matter at all what matters are those

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swing states ah yes the swing states

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most democracies around the world elect

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their head of state with a popular vote

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so whoever gets the most votes wins

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but in america we do it a little

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differently

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the u.s is the only country that picks

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its president using something called the

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electoral college it's made up of

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delegates from each u.s state when

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americans vote for president what

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they're actually voting for is who their

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state will vote for

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this is why every so often someone wins

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the presidency without winning the

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popular vote that's happened twice in

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just the past 20 years

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the majority of americans do not like

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the system and haven't for a long time

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both political parties have made

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attempts to get rid of it so why does

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the u.s still use the electoral college

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and who actually benefits from it

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the electoral college is based on how

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people are represented in congress where

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each state has a number of

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representatives based on its population

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and every state also gets two senators

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so for example let's look at texas which

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has a huge population and vermont which

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has a really small one texas has 36

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representatives in congress vermont only

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gets one

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representatives in both states each

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represent roughly the same number of

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people

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