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
Week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why why mostrtant, political scholars hate the Electoral College. Hopefully you have read most of the book so far, 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 think isl, which i 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 elect thes how we president , but very few americans understand the process. Theou take a course in 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. We started our discussions of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations and taking a relatively deep diving to the process rules of nominations today. We start out president ial nomina
Pillow and welcome to crossfire things are considered im Peter Lavelle up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them but is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of politics. Crosslinking political intolerance im joined by my guest kevin chavez in washington hes managing part. Of the chavez group as well as former president of d. C. Young democrats also in washington we have crisper hes a political analyst and iraq war veteran also in raleigh we cross to ryan he is the national cochair and founder of students for trump card gentlemen crosslike rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok kevin im going to go to you 1st because youre on the odd man out i want to make that clear im going to make sure that you get equal time on this
Inauguration which i experience and trying can attest to this to so many young republicans in this country and hes done so much work mobilizing young republicans across the country on campuses in the College Environment look at whats happening in our campuses how vile and how hateful people are and a friend of mine who was punched in the face at berkeley and was assaulted for being a republican so you know i mean i think things have gotten a little bit a little bit out of control and i do think that not being able to hear that other side and have that sort of conceptual discussion which has got out of control is a problem you know im ryan and you have a lot of experience in this here i mean i guess i portray my age im the oldest one here but you know how being different points of view was good and people respected you didnt always like it but now youre demonized toward and youre considered evil and that comes mostly from one direction i would point out here that is a real problem with
When we call it discrimination i think that is probably not the right word because in what way is a stopping you from from living a certain quality of life its not like Racial Discrimination or gender based discrimination or Something Like that so i would use that term to describe the fact that people are so polarized that i have no question that dont you think kevins gotten worse how many liberals are work for it work for c. N. N. I mean thats the bias im talking about let me go to chris now in washington that is biased against people and that creates this polarization and to be fair on the other side there is a lot of conservatives that work for fox and lets be fair here go ahead chris. Thats thats true peter but i think fox has actually gotten a little more balanced with having liberal hosts and having a lot of liberals on the network with very strong different points of view but i think i mean i agree about the word were discrimination but lets not lose sight of the point how is it