they're unbelievably busy. And perhaps some of them, like the rest of the the Democratic primary electorate, is a defensive voter. The electability narrative is very important for them. Like they're they're locked in on on what MS now is saying is is the best possible choice.
like for those who are unaware, you've had great influence in the Democratic party, but you've never had formal electoral office. Like if if someone is unfamiliar with what you do, with what the Center for American Progress does, uh, how would you explain it to them? Uh the center for American progress is a ideas institution. It's a think tank. Uh
not only is that morally wrong, but they are going to push away many of the moderate voters that they need to build electoral majorities. And by the way, how do you know that? Like I guess I'm SAYING LIKE IT'S HAPPENING right now. The man has a popular Twitch stream, much more popular than a lot of other people, a lot of
vote, we choose it through this funky system made hundreds of years ago. But did you know that it's not just that the Electoral College causes us to focus on six or seven states for battleground presidential results? It also means that the electoral votes themselves aren't distributed equally. Let's look at the relative voting power by state in the
You have the Amazon Studios executives. Electoral college. As the leader of this country.
You have the Amazon Studios executives. Electoral college, right? Constitutionally he was elected.
I mean, I know it's got a commercial definition, and that people ghostwrite things .. electoral rolls at the British Museum, the British Library, as was-- In the old days, yeah, yeah.
And very importantly, makes it very difficult for leaders in the developing world to continue to sell to their electorates the need for more discipline policies. Because by the way, there's a lot of work left to be done.
So, yes, many of the incentives go against making long-term decisions, but I think it's incumbent on the electorate to actually hold their leaders to a higher standard. So the key point in the context of unions is the following.
Plus, a war that was, that was born out of a pack of lies should be on the table in the electoral campaign. But, I doubt it, it's any of the two parties; I'm talking about the Conservative of course, and Labor, won't touch that topic because if they do, it may turn out to be the Pandora Box. But, backfire.
its stability, it needs a few neutral institutions. You know, it needs independent courts. It needs an independent electoral commission. It needs independent media. In the modern world, it needs a meritocratic bureaucracy. So, people are hired and fired to measure pollution or worry
Democrats are talking more and more about this issue, and the reason why is that it cuts across a unique slice of the electorate. This is something that they don't think just motivates their base, but can reach out to independents and Republicans who voted for Trump on a more economic front. That's the third thing that I found really interesting.
Electoral College causes us to focus on six or seven states for battleground presidential results? It also means that the electoral votes themselves aren't distributed equally. Let's look at the relative voting power by state in the 2024 election. The least populous states, places like Wyoming, Vermont,
states to their electoral votes, the smallest relative voting power belongs to populous states that don't get as many electoral votes. Places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York. The second chart I'm going to show is about the Senate because I think it takes the last problem and makes it a
the suspension of counting rather counting of votes and announcement of results was an attempt at manipulation. The electoral commission said that it was because there were pockets of violence reported and a theft of ballot boxes containing marked ballot papers.
Don't come in and read the charts. The electoral reform. So the last two federal governments were majority governments of 39%.
Yeah. That gets into proportional representation. and electoral processes are and all that, and the unfairness or bias in the system, and the gaming of the system and so
Yeah. That gets into proportional representation. divided electorate, that even in the primaries it gets kind of micro-tribal, where given that environment,
long-term decisions. And the principal motivation, frankly, for writing the book was the desire to raise expectations on the part of the electorate. So I wanted to take these examples and illustrate to a general readership that discipline is a two-way street in many respects. So if we don't hold our leaders accountable to a higher standard, then we shouldn't expect them to behave with long-term vision.
The last thing I was going to mention is the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a system that, well let's just say has not been impersonated by any other country in the world. Many countries have identified our separation of powers as being an excellent idea and they've adopted it to their usage.
There were three candidates, but he just got a tiny majority over 50 percent of the popular vote and won a pretty solid vote of the electoral votes. Reagan started a process in this country that continues basically to this day and that has proven to be impervious to change of administration, change of political party, and time.
ritualized electoral democracy. The day-to-day issues about how we live, what we do, how we define
We are creating an electorate that think the truth is just a narrative.
Is that what your electoral base cares about?
the so-called electoral college bias towards Republicans.
actual experts who understand how to do things. So you need those things to be in place in order to ensure that each time there's an electoral cycle, it's a fair election. And you see people who are elected who who once they had power decided to take those institutions apart. You know, if you think about democracy, it's actually a very strange
extreme for the Michigan electorate. And he pointed to El-Sayed's relationship with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan as proof.
There is an electoral cost to backstopping genocide and apartheid. And that's what's wild to me is that people like third way are like, well, there's a
our problems are electorally. There is a deeper spiritual rot in this country.
time here. The first is of course about the maps. Not only did the change in congressional districts sow confusion among the electorate, wasting valuable time and energy from volunteers and candidates, but it also reinforced a feeling of powerlessness among the electorate. Folks feel as if they just don't have agency in our democratic
show the structural health of our democracy or lack thereof. The first is about the Electoral College. Now, everybody knows that the Electoral College is a little messed up. We don't choose the president via direct popular vote, we choose it through this funky system made hundreds of years ago. But did you know that it's not just that the
Alaska, North Dakota, all of that has the highest relative voting power. If you think about the population of those states to their electoral votes, the smallest relative voting power belongs to populous states that don't get as many electoral votes. Places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York.
agreement to the American electorate because of course he was the president that withdrew the United States from the
that the electorate is informed, which in turn leads to both the protection of individual liberty and a check against government
People point to its electoral system.
He flooded the electoral commission with his loyalists.
So, we have these two symptoms, very obvious symptoms, of a problem in our democracy. With the Electoral College we're not going to see it disappear anytime soon, but Maine and Nebraska have already done a simple solution. They allocate their electors based on voting.
With the Electoral College we're not going to see it disappear anytime soon, but Maine and Nebraska have already done a simple solution. They allocate their electors based on voting. They use proportional representation, trivial idea.
The Indian electoral system is a legacy of the colonial Britain. It's not at all a rational system. It's utterly irrational. I believe Attlee, who was the Prime Minister of Britain
But we need to understand like the electoral impacts of woke.
and that will be very effective electorally of course.
among the electorate, wasting valuable time and energy from volunteers and candidates, but it also reinforced a feeling of powerlessness among the electorate. Folks feel as if they just don't have agency in our democratic system and that democracy is on life support. The second big takeaway I had is about the message of corruption.
education but they're not looking at electoral politics. what they are trying to do is uh this grassroot campaign of
of election results by the Electoral Commission, a move which caused a lot of
anxiety and disagreements amongst the electoral stakeholders.
It's independent of the electoral cycle.
AAPIs are the fastest growing electorate group in the US, and our contribution to the latest election
en mitad de una campaña electoral para preparar las entrevistas del Objetivo.
I had a model of the electoral college.
There is a map of the electoral college of only millennials that voted, and it's overwhelmingly the other way on social issues, especially climate change.