Today we are going to start a week of starting specifically prof. Curry today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why its important, why most political scholars hate the Electoral College. With the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the Electoral College but its a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. I do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president , but very few americans understand the process. If you take a course in the american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. But also because its really important in how it structures how elections turnout. Just like how we started our discussions of president ial nominations by
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So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr
That might not be enough because it looks as if joe biden has more than enough force to get over the 270. 00 Electoral College vote threshold which of course means he wins the white house but ideally the biden team would like to get to 360 thats within their grasp theres a couple reasons for that one it makes it look slightly more comfortable than just squeezing by on one Electoral College vote id take so we. Only got there because of problems with the voting systems but also 306. 00 is what donald trump achieved 4 years ago so for many in the Biden Campaign there would be an ironic symmetry that biden got to 306 but celebrations here in front of the white house and even here in the. Goodbye that was played i remember. 12 years ago when. The. Obama won the white house for the 1st time but a truly historic moment if this is to go through because of course we get joe biden as president in the United States but also elected for the 1st time to the office of Vice President we have a woman
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