In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, 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 elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
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
I want to start today sure for the flexion on the passing of so Sean Connelly screen legend the worlds most famous scot the definitive bond demon golfer sean connery was all of these things and much much more to me he was a loyal steadfast friend over more than 30 years but i took this show on some 23 years ago the pun passed in a really wanted to interview with sean connery and he readily agreed but suckin stances in health prevented that happening and the reason was that of all the interviews that shown that over the years all the things that were written about him only read one from the the scottish offer Willie Michael vanny which got cost of capturing the essence of sean connery because this was not just a a great personality a great movie star this was a great human being a deeply deeply humanness funny ironic human being with great views on on life and Everything Else and never frightened to express them. In my life ive been privileged to meet a few great people but only a few a
9 pm here in moscow welcome to our national glad you chose this hour we got up to talk about starting with how the fate of the u. S. Presidency rests in the hands of a dozen states still counting votes right this minute results that hung in the balance and could still go either way President Joe Biden is ahead of donald trump in the race for the white house but still doesnt have enough to be counted sixteenths well joining me live now is Caleb Moore Penn who is a new york frost. Everything to play for still it seems and while team bidens feeling pretty confident they claim victory in the sites dont trump has demanded a recount in one of the battleground states and wisconsin is not is not right. Indeed we are seeing that the Trump Campaign is saying that the margin is close enough that they would like a recount and as we look at the states remaining we have wisconsin and michigan those are the 2 states where the vote counting is not officially concluded but its being reported that that
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