It is also better from an equal protection perspective. He said there is nothing not democratic about the system. The Supreme Court has expressly said that a winner take all system like this, which basically resolves the allocation of delegates at an 1963im level, like in footnote 12, the court expressly which is that system, basically Electoral College at the state level, is a system for counting the votes of the minority for the purpose of discarding those votes. Whathat was a violation of equality would require. This alternative would eliminate that problem. Givethis would do is everybody more power relative to the current stump which gives power to the Supreme Court instead. In the end the only argument we are going to have each are that my alternative would biased in favor of the small states, whereas the current alternative bias is in favor of the big states. I can tell you many on the right would be surprised because many on the right think the Current System bias is in favor of
Very popular among the Political Science it. And were gonna do it with George C Edwards book, hopefully read most of it, you get an argument against Electoral College, it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. This is i really do a whole week on this because it is how we elect the president but few americans understand the full extent of the process, if you take a course in the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process we used to select our chief executive officer works. Also because it is important and how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion on president ial nominations by talking about the history and processes and a deep dive into the process rules, the rule nominations today. We should start out with this the same way with even deeper dive into the single most important institutional
Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. He has been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, he borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which continue our tradition of nonpartisan work, to Work Together on issues that affect Indian Country. Im also grateful for the leadership
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About the impact later on in the show. Time now for bloomberg time now to dig a look at all the news you need to know, from d. C. To new york. We are joined by bloombergs michael mckee, taking a look at all of the Market Action and economic action out of europe. It was a tough day for services pmis. Michael absolutely, and the charts tell the stories. These were the worst numbers ever for france, germany, and the eurozone, showing the Service Industries worsen manufacturing, and in part due to a quirk in the data. The market, we get pmis at 9 45 this morning. The same sort of data are expected. We also get the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index, the most highfrequency Consumer Confidence data. That has been moved up two days. The crashing of the european economies has revived talk, or pushed, shall we say, talk of stimulus higher up the agenda. German chancellor Angela Merkel has already decided that she is going to establish a Stimulus Program to help revive the economy, and she has put