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
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Favor the Democratic Party over the next quarter century. Meansts discuss what this party and theican Democratic Party morning, im director of overnmental studies at the bipartisan center. Welcome to our change event, an been doing weve here for four years but it even couple of years beyond that. States of change is a partner with the center for merican progress, and also i want to mention the participation of at the enterprise institute. Together am has put election information, and combined with demographic information. About the future of our electorate. New data, a have new report. Says, about the name the state not only our country but how the states are changing nd how they might change over time and we often have different scenarios as to what might change indemographics one way and Voter Preferences in another. Every year, we have an interesting report. Were going to hear from the authors of that and walk through that, but we also have a particular theme this year that were emp
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the
With demographic information, thinking about the future of our elections. Each year, we have new data, a new report. Says,nk, as the name about the state, not only our country, but how the states are changing over time. We also have different scenarios as to what might happen. In one way, change Voter Preferences in another. Just like every year, we have an interesting new report. We will hear from the authors of that and walk through that. We also have a particular theme this year we are emphasizing generational change. We have now seen jens he enter z entertorate gen the electorate. All of our generations are moving through the electorate. Addressess report that aspect, how things are changing, how they might change, and some of the scenarios, whether voter change their attitudes when the age into different parts of life. They age into different parts of life. We are going to have a presentation of the report. The coauthors of the report are all are three of our important partners. I