This morning. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, call 202 7488000. If you support President Trump and Vice President pence, call 202 7488001. If you support another ticket or did not vote, we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us at 202 7488003, and we are always reading on social media on twitter, twitter at cspan wj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Right now once again it is saturday and the president ial race has not yet been decided. Right now, you can always go to cspan. Org to see the state of the Electoral College where right now the map says that joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes. 214, withtrump has several major states left to go, including nevada, pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, and alaska. Once again, all of the votes have not been counted, but most news organizations are projecting that joe biden eventually will take a lead that cannot be overcome by President Trump. Joe biden came out last night on friday
I am joined by alley and hope. Hope wright, my dear colleague, began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a play on my own time, and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked a variety of educational institutions as an actress, story teller, writer, refer, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Thank you. Our special guest, ally larson, is a professor of law and director of the bill of rights law. Cynic she joined the william and mary faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award in the rising star category. Professor larson is a scholar of constitutional law and legal institutions with a focus on how information dynamics affect both. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments. Please hel
U. S. Constitution were debated and signed. This Program Featuring National Park Service Ranger matthew ifel is about one hour. We are in a building that was built in the 1730s, so about 48 years before there was any such thing as the United States and at that time, of course, pennsylvania was a british colony. And this was its Capitol Building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies has its own government. These are the issues in a lot of ways that are going to lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room, because the colonies as time goes forward or at least many people of the Political Class in these colonies will start to grow dissatisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally. One of the other side issues is americans living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. When the parliament in london makes laws for americans, the most famous being the various
Current president s rhetoric and work to ensure the peaceful transfer of power on january 20. Barry, theack with cofounder and president of National Popular vote. Barry is here to talk to us about his groups effort to promote the National Popular vote rather than the Electoral College to elect president s. Good morning. Thank you very much for giving me to time the time to talk about the National Popular vote plan. Host tell us about your organization. What is the mission of National Popular vote . Guest the mission is very simple. The mission is to guarantee that whatever president ial candidate sees the most votes in all 50 states and the District Of Columbia is elected the president. So, we want the president to be elected by the National Popular vote. States e in all 50 you have the vote in all 50 states and the District Of Columbia and that is the winter. Home without my constitution and the cspan copy of the constitution. One giveso section state legislatures the exclusive right
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