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Sep 13, 2026
Peter SchiffHOST
I mean, the purpose, supposedly, of a convention is to nominate, uh, somebody, uh, for president and vice president.
Peter SchiffHOST
The Electoral College, right, we send all of our delegates to the convention, because before the convention, we don't have the candidate yet.
Peter SchiffHOST
Now, in theory, the way it was originally conceived by the Framers, the delegates themselves were supposed to choose the president.
Peter SchiffHOST
It wasn't a popular election.
Peter SchiffHOST
Only the House of Representatives was elected by the people.
Peter SchiffHOST
The president was supposed to be elected by the Electoral College, who were not rubber stamps.
Peter SchiffHOST
They were supposed to exercise their judgment and vote for who they thought would be the best president or who they thought would be the best vice president.
Peter SchiffHOST
In fact, the president didn't name, like, somebody to join the ticket.
Mark LevinHOST
They want to dismantle the Senate.
Mark LevinHOST
They want to dismantle our electoral system, the Electoral College.
Mark LevinHOST
They want to abolish the presidency.
Mark LevinHOST
Oh, that's a good one.
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Mark LevinHOST
We're not talking about that.
Mark LevinHOST
We're talking about people who want to scuttle the system, sabotage it.
Mark LevinHOST
What about individuals who declare that they intend to eliminate the Electoral College? How do they intend to do that without amending the Constitution? Well, we know, oh, the national vote.
Mark LevinHOST
We've got a whole system.
Mark LevinHOST
But we do have Marxists, and Raskin's one of them, and he's a bad one, and he's been involved in every impeachment against the president.
Mark LevinHOST
He was involved in challenging the Electoral College vote against the president.
Mark LevinHOST
He tried to use the 14th Amendment to take him off ballots, you may recall, in Colorado and elsewhere.
Mark LevinHOST
He was a professor of the constitutional type, you know, but he was a clown, and he is a clown.
Mark LevinHOST
That's what gets me.
Mark LevinHOST
This guy wants to destroy the independence of the Supreme Court.
Mark LevinHOST
He wants to destroy the Electoral College.
Mark LevinHOST
He wants to pack the Supre- the, uh, s- the Senate with four more Democrat senators.
Windsor JohnstonHOST
The Census Bureau says the proposals would leave out people without permanent legal status and sharply reduce the collection of racial and ethnic information.
Windsor JohnstonHOST
Census figures help determine each state's representation in Congress and the Electoral College, while racial data is used to track discrimination and disparities in areas such as income, housing, and public safety.
Windsor JohnstonHOST
Researchers say they found the most detailed feather from the age of dinosaurs inside a chunk of fossilized feces.
Windsor JohnstonHOST
NPR's Ari Daniel explains.
Sean WilentzHOST
Well, the argument I've sometimes heard, though, is that the president and the vice president is the only officer of the government who is elected by the entire electorate.
Sean WilentzHOST
I mean, we all know that it's through the Electoral College and so forth.
Sean WilentzHOST
But that is the argument that's often said, that the congressmen represent a small district, but the president and the vice president are truly national office holders in a way that others aren't.
Sean WilentzHOST
What do you say to that?
Nate SilverGUEST
I mean, so it's not that the model changes so much as that the condit- conditions change.
Nate SilverGUEST
Um, one thing that we saw in 2016 obviously is that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote that l- that year and lost the electoral college.
Nate SilverGUEST
Um, that is probably a persistent problem for Democrats in a world where they turn out, the college-educated coalition in California, New York, places like that, places where they wind up having a lot of wasted votes.
Nate SilverGUEST
So the GOP more populist coalition is more efficient.
Nate SilverGUEST
So, so therefore you bet on Harris to win the popular vote, as Democrats usually do, but the electoral college is about 50/50.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
Wow.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
It's kind of a running meme that nobody knows anyone who's answered a political poll, and yet the entire country seems to sort of hang on this kind of data.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
And the polls, the pollsters don't like where this is headed.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
We have the votes to secure the Electoral College.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
Remember, they won the Electoral College.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
They lost the popular vote.
Andrea ChalupaHOST
And this was a bizarre statement to make.
Kyaa ChimeraGUEST
Um, I don't think that protesting or voting is going to help either because obviously the votes, it's been proven that our votes are tampered with, that our votes do not always count.
Kyaa ChimeraGUEST
The Electoral College itself shows us-
MattHOST
Yeah
Kyaa ChimeraGUEST
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why is the electoral college important
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it decides who is elected president it decides who is elected president
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what is one part of the judicial branch
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What are two cabinet-level positions? What are two cabinet-level positions? Secretary of Labor Secretary of State Secretary of Labor
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Secretary of State Question 49 Why is the Electoral College important?
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Why is the Electoral College
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important?
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Cuz it decides who is elected president.
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