Political institutions and a commitment to the traditions of democracy. But on the other hand, it saddled us with some obsolete 18thCentury Institutions. Foremost among them is the Electoral College. Back when they set up the Electoral College, the gap populous andeast most populous state, you had a 51 ratio. Today it is well over 601. The Electoral College is biased against the most populous states and biased in favor of the smaller states because no state, no matter what its population, gets less than three Electoral College votes because votes are determined by the number of congressional representatives plus the two senators. So the small states have just one member of congress, but they also have two senators. That is three Electoral College votes. It distorts our political system. Now, why the Electoral College . Why did the framers set this up . Like anything else, there are multiple reasons. The framers loved the common people, but they did not love them all that much. They bel
Good afternoon just gone 2 oclock here in moscow you with r. T. International now lets start with that breaking news this hour from france because 3 people are confirmed dead in the sudden french city of nice following a knife attack this is life footage from the site of the attack several others have been left injured the incident took place in the early hours of the story early in the morning in the city center and Authorities Say a suspect has been arrested so lets go. First to get the latest shot just bring us up to date then with what more we know at this stage. Well the investigation into this attack has been taken over by the Anti Terrorism prosecution here in france theyre looking at what happened that led to that attack that sought 3 People Killed those people were killed inside the church the basilica not done which is in the center of nice where that attack took place now its does appear that this has all the hallmarks of an islam ist attack although that has not been confir
I take my paper and my booking came in right away. Of the sites are a bit more of a destination. Alameda county reached out to us and they were interested in using us as a polling place because we are a big warehouse and of course we jumped on it right away. Were just really happy to be a part of democracy. Voting rules mean you cannot drink your beer on the premises. It is nice to be able to come here, do my voting in person and pick up a treat afterwards. One after another told us that this emergency arrangement is how it should be every year. Its a saturday and i can vote right now. You can vote on a saturday. Yes, yes. I think this should be the norm. Where you get a couple of days. We did not see much in the way of lines today. Just a lot of voters were happy to have an option on the saturday afternoon. It feels good to vote for sure, yeah. It was really my first time at a little bit of an advanced age but this year i got really involved to see whats going on out there i feel pret
Good thursday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin is with us for the hour. Stocks in a whipsaw range, down a couple hundred up 100 here. S p 500 up 25 or so after the dows near 1,000 point loss yesterday. Worst day since june on pace for the worst month since march. But then you get a stock like pinterest. Good guide coming up, going against the grain. Julia, remarkable price target increases. Basically doubling what some analysts saw the stock trading to yeah. A lot of positive responses to those numbers there. Really a beat across the board, carl what is so interesting to me is what we saw in this quarter from pinterest is last quarters results were not just a blip but that this is a company that could stand to benefit over the long term from some of these trends were seeing during covid19 there is some surprising, funny Little Things like the fact that pinterest grabbed four million new users due to the fact that people are going to pinterest to find inspir
Heavily affected by all of this as well as parts of the south bay. Lets take a look from our San Bruno Mountain camera. You can see it is shaking. Wind speeds have picked up throughout the night. Theyre expected to get even gus gustier. Rob maeda a covering the story for us. These are the conditions we were worried about. Strong winds on the increase and humidity levels starting to drop down. Walnut creek 16 humidity sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour. Livermore humidity 10 winds down to 15. Were starting to see some of the wind spilling into oakland. 31 Miles Per Hour, sustained winds there. You can see the winds picking up in San Francisco. But at the top of the list, 84 mile per hour gusts up at Mount Saint Helena. It is the north bay seeing the worst of it now. The transition over the last six hours, some of the dryer air sweeping offshore at the golden gate bridge. You can see it there. The reason we have the wind advisory up through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, gusts of 45 to 60 Miles