Electoral College? The Math Don't Be Mathing

we might still get like celebratory riots. We ain't even got to the October surprise yet, Like it is wild in these streets. But also this means we're all gonna participate in one of the most bizarre convoluted up the street round the Corona Rigamaro Way to vote for a leader, and that is the electoral College. Like why is it even politics, y'all? All right, First, it's like a d bull look is like this bullook is like this all right, y'all, it's like this so uh, Usually the end of Labor

Day marks the like final stretch of campaigning. Now the it's as as if it hasn't got weird. I believe it's probably gonna get weirder. And I don't even know you know, like I I'm I giggle because I'm in this with you. It's just gonna get weirder. Now. Why it's gonna get weirder is this and this is the season we're in now, And what's going on in the news is you have to ratchet up because the race

is so close. No matter what anybody is saying, uh, as far as the campaigns are concerned, like or what you may feel like, Dan, there's so much momentum here. There's so much momentum there. The race at the end of the day is pretty even, which means the only way to win is to get people to actually come to the show. You have to come vote because you can have this stuff. But if y'all don't care, if y'all,

if you don't show up, you startin't gonna win. So right now, that means that foods is gonna be They gonna be in your inboxes, They're gonna be on your TV, they gonna be in your your text messages. Somebody don't leak your number, and you getting text from people from one of these campaigns and both of these campaigns you ain't lying to me. I know what's happening. So and it's because they just need people to come through. Like you can have whatever feeling you want, you gotta come through.

And that's where where where that is right now. I am currently about to record an episode on the two Economic Plans because they've kind of been released. Uh and you know we we we uh were going through these things. You know what I'm saying, like like white parents looking for lights in their hair because I don't know if you know about black people, like they lights don't be living in our hair greases, So like I did, I didn't.

I didn't know lights was a thing anyway. Uh what else? Oh, Disney pulled the plug on ESPN if you had Direct TV and you was watching the US Open Yoll scream with black because Disney was like, y'all not paying us brad TV broke, Like I don't like broke is in not not having money, but broke is in broken for like what is going on? So Disney got to deal

with ESPN. And Disney last year was beefing with Charter because they was like, you're not paying us, right and Charter was like nah, fam, Like we got to figure out how to sell this product. They was like, nigga, no, you're not gonna do it with our channel. So Disney and Direct TV beefing, and we one week before the NFL starts. So, uh, if y'all don't want these white people to riot, boy white people Mexican's from Texas and and black Raider fans, they they for the burdens, cutry down,

y'all figure out ESPN. Y'all worried about the you worried about the election. You better get this, you better get this football back on. In some personal news, I am on a show in PBS called Reconnecting Roots. It's season four. I'm on the episode about journalism. I don't know which episode that is, but the show called Reconnecting Roots. They want to em me last year. I'm on the show. It's safe for the whole family. It's a little like kind of fun take on just like history and and

just Americana, So please tune in. It was a super honor to be a part of Reconnecting Roots. It's on PBS. And also, you know RFK bent the knee, y'all, so if it were me, if I were an RFK fan, this is literally selling This is what selling out means. I just don't understand. This is what's selling out means. Right, you're the anti establishment, You're the like you're that dude, right, like you're the anti establishment. The system's broken. Both these

parties are flawed. I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna bring a new way to do it unless you give me a job. I like, wait, ain't that okay? I will end my principles if you pay me. Is that's what selling out means. So I'm just at least that's what I thought. Now what do I know? Either way? I think I think JD. Van's better watch his back. He about to be drew bledzel. You know what I'm saying.

All right, let's do the news is like this, Okay, So words we throw around all the time, direct, democracy, republic, democratic republic, all these different terms for which we organize our government. Sometimes they're thrown around so much. And seventh grade was so long ago. It's like, what is when

you do Americans? You do America eleventh grade? So seventh grade is American history and then eleventh grades, at least in California, that's oh, it was what it lost The terms become they stop meaning stuff, because it's like that's why by the time you get radicalized in your twenties and then disillusioned in your thirties, you like, I don't care about none of this. I'm not voting like voting over because what difference is a vate the country don't

match the marketing content. So you're just like, I don't know what idiot is mean? Is why am I even what am I even doing? You told me to go pick a guy, and then on the day of the election, you talking about this state gave you this much, and you change in the colors on the screen, and it's like, then, what did I even what did I? What are we doing? You like for I voted for Jill sty I voted for Like You're like, I didn't vote for either of these fools and they're not even on the screen. I

get it. What does it even mean? You talk about electoral votes, then people talk about popular vote and electoral vote, and then how many times if you anywhere within a ten mile radius of my age, hell yeah, even a fifteen mile radius of my age, how many times the president didn't win a popular vote? You mean to tell me more of us voted more Americans voted for that dude, and he lost. What does any of this mean? I

feel you today. I'm gonna try to help Okay. Now, we did an episode last season in season two called the End of the Year Pizza Party. I'm trying to help you understand the difference between a direct democracy and a democratic republic. Okay, you could go back in there and listen to that. Now, every other person we vote for in our country, for every other elected position, is a direct democracy, meaning the people who got the most

votes wins. Except for our president. That's the only office that we do the way that we do that has this sort of representative electoral college situation. So today I'm gonna talk about how it works, the history of it, and arguments for and against because it's it's it's weird. Okay. Now, some of y'all may notice already. If you do, that's dope.

If you don't, we only you won't learn today. All right, let's do this, all right, So when your original for aims of the Constitution, we're putting together the Constitution, membor, this is a draft, right, so they have to write the thing. Then they got to go back home and make sure that people from their colony would actually be down with this doc. Now it's Philadelphia, it's in the summer, it's in the seventeen hundred. Y'all wearing powder, y'all got wigs.

It is hot as hell in them rooms. I just went like, like, let's not romanticize, Like it's just man sweat, and you got marrying Europeans. They ain't believe in bathing. Let me tell you a little bit about black people. Oh man, I was just on the my Mama told me podcasts with the with the hoies over there, man Langston, and like we discussed how we're talking about washing chicken and that despite the science that is probably provable, I'm

still gonna keep washing my chicken because that's nasty. And the thing is like cleanliness. I think it's it's the unsung. It's like the black thought of blackness, Like it's really the goat. It's like musty is almost sinful to black people, Like we don't be ashy. You don't be musty. It's like you're disrespecting your ancestors if you not clean, like one understand, like the peturely smelling rampits. Ooh, seriously, yo, that was a straight up, real deal, holy feel earthquake. Man.

That's why I was like serious. I had to hit stop real quick because I was like this a lot got dug. Listen, man, this is oh man, that this this is making me channel all my old folks from the church, like, oh Lord, I mean, Jesus is coming soon. The thing is it was in the epicenter was Pasadena,

and I was just a four point seven. But because it was so close you, like anybody from anybody, I bet you everybody from here is all talked about where they were during the north Ridge or the Wittyo or the Silmar earthquake because it was so may once but six six or seven or something like that that like, I mean it took out the five freeway, yo, Like ah,

that earthquake was crazy. And listen, I'll be sleeping through them like natives like if don't wake me up under a four point zero, well, nigga, it is a four point seven, so you get up, yup, Oh man, I ain't an calm down. Don't cut this out, Matt, this is fun. I cut We really out here lost scandalous anyway, but truly smelling armpits. We listened black people washed like we believe in that. So I'm just imagining a room for the seventeen hundreds white people in Philly just hot,

ass nasty, just Satan's boogers, just hot. So just imagine a work retreat with no air conditioner and a bunch of alphas who all believe that they got a vision for the future. And you making up not a job description, not a project. You're making up a country. You're making up a government like you're making it up. So you got to take pieces from here and from here. It

just try to cobble the thing together. Now, just like every other job that you got, you break off into subcommittees, and each little subcommittee is supposed to figure out a certain part of building this particular government. That's why you got all the articles and just trying to figure it out, like what are okay, what are we doing here? We have this dope idea, but of like you know, no taxation was out ready to say okay, cool, okay, now, so like you gotta make a or we're gonna so

we're just gonna make a country. Yeah. So now you got these subcommittees. Now, there was one committee that was called the Committee of Unfinished Parts. Oh my god, this for everything we've forgot. You have to remember at this point, every colony don't even use the same dialog. So like, wait a minute, So how do you buy something in Philadelphia if you come it from Virginia? What we posted? How do we we need a tran How you do that?

Matter of fact, we talked about it so many times in the other things, about the other episodes about the Supreme Court to where the foolsbuses got tired, because it just say America has a Supreme Court. It don't say no other rules besides that. Look, we tied. We're gonna lead that for the Look, look we'll lead that for the night staff. You know what I'm saying. That's the next gen. You know you feel we'll lead that for them.

Y'all figure that out. We can't tell the future. Dog the Committee of the Unfinished Parts, and it was led by a brother from New Jersey named David Brarely, right, And they had figured out everything except for how do

we elect the president. Why was that so important was because like again, they're inventing the internet in their time, like the equivalent of like you're making up the internet and you're trying to explain email to somebody, like you're trying to explain like it's just it has not been seen before. This concept of the president that they had in the head was like, okay, so it's not a monarch, but it's also it's not a dictator. It's not a like what like how are well how do they become it?

And how do we protect this person from becoming like a monarch? Like what who gets to choose it? And and like how do how do we figure out? We know we want this separation of powers, we don't want one, So like, okay, you take the power, you break it into three, but you still need a dude. But how does that do? Is that dude in charge of everybody else? Like how do we make sure? What do we what are we even doing here? So we need to figure

out a way to elect this particular office. So the concept was at first the Congress would choose because you can't just trust it to be a direct democracy, because don't everybody can't read right, So they were like and again you remember they were so they were so afraid of this person having too much power, So what's the compromise Because it's like if it's if it's chosen by the Congress, then like, how do you protect from corruption

from there? Like so then, now, so that means that the Congress and the and the executive branch get to be in cahoots and they can make their plans. Do they payola and everything? So they was like, okay, well that can't. So somebody had to come up with some sort of compromise that would not be perfect, but at least would be like, all right, a middle ground. Now what a lot of historians suggest, which is the part that really is interesting to me, is Okay, here's what

you're balancing between. You're balancing between the power of small states and large states, right, and then the power of slave states and free states. Which is why a lot of sort of activists in my world that are just like, hey man, it's origins are racist, and its origins are really more around slavery, and it ain't really around fairness. It's around making sure that the slave states feel happy. But I'm gonna get to that a little bit later.

So they was like, Okay, we know it's not perfect, but we know some certain states are bigger than others. So I'm going to have more population than others. And we know that, Like, there's got to be a way to make sure that everybody gets a fair say. And it can't just be to Congress, because y'all can make deals separate from what the people want, and then you can't really trust the people because the people don't a lot of times they don't know what they talk about,

and they'll just mess around. Just make this person a king. So this is what we came up with. Now, remember since they just writing a draft and these people got to go back home to convince they folks, you have, like, these colonies evolved in so many different ways. Some are cities, some are agriculturals, some are slave states, some are free states. They all have different interests and they all want to

protect their own interests. So how you're going to get everybody to agree on anything is like almost an insurmount or hill. Let alone, who won't be the dog on president? Now, how it's supposed to work on paper is like this. So the electoral college are the electorates that actually vote for the president. So states select these representatives, and each state has a certain amount of delegates that are supposed to vote in alignment of the popular vote for the states.

So we go, we basically tell our selected electors. Now you remember this drama in that Trump going through where he picked what's called fake electors, which apparently he gonna be immune from. But so the state selects these electors and they say, based on the popular vote of the state that they represent, this is what our state votes. Every four years, we just make a Congress, a separate congress. That was the idea of Congress is supposed to be

choosing the president. We can't trust this cong and we just make one every four years. We're just going to call them electors. Their only job is to cast the votes for the president of the minor states. How each state gets electors is like this. You take the number of House of Representatives right and the number of Senators, and you add that up. That's how many electors you get. Since these numbers are based on population, right, Texas gets

a lot more electoral votes right then, like Maryland. So that's why Cali has so many electoral votes. Now, what they want to do is try to make sure that this is also set up so it's not so proportional to where big states still get all the power just because they big states, which is like, well, if that's the case, well that's stupid. It's you'll just it's still if it's just population, then why are we going through all this? So even though like a smaller state has

less votes, they count for more. I know, it don't make no sense, it really don't, but it's the weight of their vote. So how that works is like this, like, okay, so the amount of representatives plus the senators. Right, every state only has two senators, and your members of the House represent particular districts. So let's just say your state has four districts and that state has four districts. So if that's the case, you both still only have four

representatives in the House. Now, the size of my district might be four times the amount of your district, but just because your district small shouldn't mean that your vote don't matter as much. So that's why you go by that. Now, California has fifty five votes because we just have that many districts. But if one district has one hundred thousand people, that's one representative and your district only got five thousand people, that's still one representative. So that's what we mean by

the vote weighs more. All right, Yeah, everybody gets heard and that the big states don't always win. That's the concept, which is how someone could win the popular vote, meaning more people voted for them, but they lost the electoral college. So your district of five hundred thousand people that voted for candidate A, it's still just one electoral vote as compared to the person with only five thousand people they

voted for candidate B. It's still just one vote. So that's what we mean by smaller states votes way more than bigger states because less people can move a needle as long as one the electors do what the voters say.

And two, conceptually, what they trying to say is it's like, yo, if you got a concentrated fan base, like if you like like remember I talked about with what's the Florida today, Ron de Santis, if you got like a concentrated fan base where you really popping in one area, that means percentage wise for the country, you may, if there's enough people there, you may be able to get enough votes. But the problem is if the rest of the country don't really care about you, who cares about the percentage

that you have in that one spot. What the electoral college was supposed to do is to make sure that your fan base is spread across the whole country, because you got to govern the whole country, so you still got to earn points. You can't just concentrate. You can't just focus on Cali and be like I'm gonna win Cali, therefore I'm gonna win the country like this. So it's supposed to protect you in concept. So again, the first thought was Congress, just choose the guy. Then they thought

maybe governors could choose the guy. But then they were like, it's just just don't feel right. And then they was like, what can't be a direct it can't be a dire choice, And it was like, not just because you just don't have faith in the people, but it's because of one word slavery. Next, so obviously, since this is seventeen hundred, slavery is still legal and there is still a push. Even back then, there was a push to outlaws lavery. Matter of fact, it was in one of the drafts

of the Constitution, the outlost lavery. I don't know if you notice. It was in one of the drafts, and they was like, ah, we'll deal with it later. Just God, I can't stand these Thomas Jefferson, he was the one to put it in there. He was like, Yo, we should probably I don't know, guys, we should probably deal with this weird though. But the simplest answer is the Southern states are like, we have more people that live in our states. The only problem is they so racist

that you don't think your people is people. So when you counting delegate, you counting votes. We like full a full third fourth half of our population can't vote, and far beard for them to enfranchise they slaves. Hell, y'all know already when we talk about or when they talk about the people, they don't mean the people. They mean land owning, tax paying white men. Specifically. They ain't trust

them either. They was like, I don't know, y'all. This mob like, y'all don't be knowing what you're talking about saying. The South is saying we will always lose because the big chunk of our population can't vote. This was the South's argument against a direct democracy. So the North, most of them were like, man, we just don't hold to like moborol. We believe in democracy. We believe like it should be a government by the people for the people. But the people be dumb, so let's just put it

to the people. And then as we add up the states, the South was like, no matter how you slice it, you know whether the Congress chooses it. And if the Congress chooses it, again, we don't have enough representatives there because half of our population that would be a part of that representation thing, they don't vote or they can't vote. If it was a direct democracy, again, half of our population can't vote. So like, we're never gonna win. We'll

never get our way. You guys, the North will always get what it wants because there's no way for us to be, according to them, fairly represented. James Madison just said it out loud. It's like we y'all like, we gonna want laws and people that's gonna help us get our bread. But I know y'all don't like the way we move. Y'all show you like our product, but y'all don't like the way we move, So you're gonna keep making laws that's gonna make the way we move not work.

So like and remember again, this is a draft. You gotta go home and get this signed. Madison was like, nobody's gonna go nobody in Souse is gonna go for this. We can't do a direct amount. You have to come up with something else. So what they came up with was the three fist compromise. This is why I be mad when people say that they no such thing as systemic racism or that like we've never had a problem.

Like it was in their interest, Like I don't understand what you It was in your interest to enfranchise black people like you could have this would have helped, It would have helped you. So it was like, aw, we can't accept that, so we're gonna do three fits. Now how it worked is this, remember delegate votes or electric Yeah, no, no, no, go to say representative votes are based on population. So

they're like, well, technically we do have this population. So the bigger the states population, the more money you'd receive for your federal budget, and the more representation in Congress. So like they want to be able to send more representatives to Congress so we can have more political power, right, And the Northern States was like, now, wait a damn minute. You just told me they're not humans. You want to treat them like cattle, and now you want to count

them towards your population. Nah, fam, bring that same energy. This ain't gonna work for us. The Southern States was like, I don't care, it will work for you. You want us to stay in this union, this is what we' finna do. We need our enslaved people to be counted. North was like, this is absolutely ridiculous, man. You can't have it both ways. And they was like, you want us to state this what we demand. So they said, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,

this is what we're gonna do. Here's the deal, y'all stick around. We still need to make a country. But the enslaved people need to count as three fifths towards your population. So three fifths of a human does that? I so each person is three fifths of a person. So you got to understand fractions. Each black person is

counts as three fists of person. So you need for it to get to five fifths to be one person, you need two black people and then you get kind of half a person because they three out of five, right, it was two point five out of five. Then you need two black people with equal one white dude, So now you need are you following me? This? How absurd? This is this is racism, do to your braining. State of Massachusetts was like, so, so let's make the math. Math.

What you're saying is for the three fits compromise, then two black people is six fifths, So that's one in one fish. You're telling me two black people equals one in one fifth white dude. So then you add a third black dude, right, and that's one in four fifths. So then you add a third black dude. Right now, that's two and two fifths. Okay, got it? What are y'all serious? What is even? What are we talking about? Hell no, now, remember it's hot as hell. Fools is

getting tied. I'm tired of talking about this. You stink your breath steak and this is ridiculous. And so what do you do when you at work and y'all can't come up with something? You know what y'all do? Y'all take a break, everybody. Okay, everybody, take a break. Y'all

go home. We're gonna leave this for the night staff. Now, you folks in relationships, I'm gonna say you married folks straight or have sid generally, there's one of y'all in this relationship that can't make no decisions when ain't hungry or when they hot, you have a mess? Might just they just pissy when they hot. I'm up my wife to refer to her by her prefix. Listen, we got a scale of one to my homeboy Holding's wedding. How hungry are you? Obviously there's a story behind Holden's wedding.

I now know when she gets to about a seven, I just need to make the call. She can't decide what she want to eat. She's past she's past it, So I just need to make sure food gets in her body because she Nothing she gonna say is logical. I'm like that when I'm tired. Some people, when they hot, they're just mad at the world. When they hot, you can't make no. We can't make no decision when I'm hot. Like my mom was like that, leave me alone boys hot.

She used to listen. You know how many times I got in trouble just because it was hot, Like, you don't ask for no, Mama, let me long son is hot. Oh, just can't make those decisions when you hot. I'm like that when I'm tired. When I'm tired, or when I'm worried about money, don't ask me no. Questions. I'll be snapping at my children, just saying the most absurd I hear them. Stop all that giggle it why because I'm tired. Okay, so you gotta put yourself in these men shoes. They liket.

It's hot, y'all being dumb as a bag of rocks. Just look, I'm okay, I'm just gonna go home. They left it for the night staff, and that entered the Committee of the Unresolved People, and they was like, okay, word, here we go. That's what we're gonna do. Y'all don't want the Congress to do it. Y'all feel like the director ain't gonna work because your population don't work. And so we're gonna take this three fists compromise. That means

you're gonna have more state representatives inside the House. So we're gonna add up your state representatives with your little three fists weird old stuff. Okay, connect it to do your senators because every state only gets two senators, and then that's the amount of electors you get, and then how you choose your electors is up to you. But at the end of the day, listen to the point I'm telling you. This was created to make the slave states feel better. So who ends up winning are states

with lower populations and states that have slaves. That's who ends up winning in this situation, in the state that it's in. Now, now that's one point oh. Remember so a version one point Oh, you voted and number one got the president, a number two got the vice president. That's how it worked at first. But then check this out. In eighteen hundreds the run between Jefferson and Burr, they both got majorities. It was a tie seventy three electoral votes. Well,

who's the president? Like a tie? So now what do you have to do? Well, now you've got to go to the the House of Representatives. The problem is the House of Representatives was full of Federalists, which is what John Adams was who lost. Enter the third body problem. It's like the three body problem is space. Fam. This is why it's hard for us to get our brain around because we are stuck in this two party system.

It used to not be like that. You know, you had the Whigs, the Federalists, the Democratic republic Then you had the Democrats themselves and the Republicans themselves. These fools didn't know what to do because you remember The Framers hated the idea of political parties. It sounded too much like just sounds too britishy, you feel me, But so they didn't put anything in the Constitution about it. Nobody thought it would ever turn into this. The Federalists, who

they just thought the other fools was traders. We're gonna have to choose one of your all, and we all like neither one of you. So in that position, right, Alexander Hamilton, you know, the famed Alexander Hampton, a Federalist, like lobby this party to choose Thomas Jefferson. Like. So that's eventually what happened. And they was like, okay, listen, we can't let this happen again. We thought we had, We thought we had something going here with this electoral college.

Everybody think you think it was ever going to I don't think it was ever gonna have no tie, right, So out of that came the Twelfth Amendment, Right, So, electoral college two point zero, which is the type that we have today, which basically says, now you have to put in one vote for the president and one vote for the vice Now, obviously, the way we lobby, we lobbied president and vice president as a ticketed pair. But in theory, it's not written on our on our ballots anymore.

But in theory, you could vote for one president on one party and the vice president all the electors could if they so choose to. Now, let me bring in the three fists compromise back in. If it wasn't for the three fists compromise, Thomas Jefferson would have never had

enough electoral votes anyway. Remember, because they're adding them. Adding us black people made the district bigger, even though we didn't we didn't vote for the man, like, we didn't vote at all, but just our presence added to the size of the Southern States. It gave them more electoral votes because they counted us as slaves into their population

to grow their districts. Which means that Thomas Jefferson got electoral votes based on people that ain't vote for him, not only people didn't vote, and people didn't vote at all because remember we couldn't vote. So I mean, is that a democracy? Like what are we doing here? This is what I mean by it works for the Southern States like it worked for the slave It worked for pro slavery people worked they were you had this cover of small states. But y'all, y'all was cheating. I don't

know how it was to explain it. So then finally you just just just like, since slavery not only is evil, three fish compromise is absurd, teared about the country, you got the Civil War, and then the thirteenth Amendment essentially ended the three fix compromise because we're citizens. But then

you know, we could vote for a little bit. And what we do after we started voting, we started electing black people that ain't like that started the black codes and all of the ways to disenfranchise it as voters, and you know, all the voting registration and all these different things that were made to make sure that black people could have vote. Because once we started voting food, we started winning all the way into the codifying of

the Jim Crow laws. This happened obviously from we talk eighteen sixty five to the nineteen sixties, so for one hundred years. This was going on until the Civil Rights movement and us given getting our rights to vote without all of the other Jim Crow stuff, which as a conclusion, going back to the beginning part should tell you this this how important voting is. You'd like, think about all the rigamarole these people has went through to make sure

we vote, don't do it. So I'm just saying now I'm with I stand with the rest of cools on media to be like, you need to vote, and you need to vote, and voting's not enough. So don't get me wrong, I'm just saying, Yo, bananas moothie needs to have bananas in it. What a metaphor. Now, it's the system we have. Of course, it's got flaws, and I personally think it was made for the seventeen hundreds, and I think that there's some changes that need to be made.

Having said that, like I say before, even about capitalism, you in the ocean, you might as well swim. I'm obviously selling y'all a podcast, and I need y'all to listen to these ads because I have yet to recoup. I have yet to make a royalty from this show, so I need most streams and I need y'all to

listen to the ads. So that I mean, at some point I got to I still this third fourth season, whatever I fourth year doing this, I still ain't made no money from it except for the original contract, which is great. But I love it make some extra money for that. Anyway, I'm in the ocean, I need to swim. But since you in the ocean, since you in this system,

you might as well swim. So now you fast forward to now with all the ups and downs of how to twist and turn and the wheeling and the dealing, and then the fake electors that happened, you know, with the twenty twenty election when Trump ain't liked the thing, so we hired a whole new set of electors. Because remember again, it's up to the state to choose electors and how they choose it. The government or the constitution don't really mention. It's up to the state. That's what

the state says, that's what the concert say. It's up to stay how you choose your electors. These are just the amount that you get. Now in our country, the system is it's a winner take all. Let's just say your electors vote three to two for Kamala in this upcoming So your state had five electors, you voted three to two for Kamala. So that means that a big

portion of y'all's population actually voted for Trump. But it don't matter because since three out of the two voted for Kamala, all of the electoral points go to her. It don't matter what percentage of the population actually chose the other person. You get the whole pot, even though you may have barely won a little over half the pot.

You get the whole pot. Which again is how a person could win a popular vote and lose the electoral college is because you get the whole pot despite you know whatever amount of the population actually chose that person, because it's still it might have been more actual humans in that particular state than the other state, but since that state's electoral votes doesn't weigh as much as the or weighs more than the other, and they got all

the points, that's how they win. You could scroll back to what I mean by weight of their vote if you need a quick refresher. Again, the volume of humans inside of your district that that representative represents doesn't matter. You still have one that still goes towards one electoral

college vote. So if I am a district of one and you're a district of a thousand, right, if a thousand of y'all voted for Kamala and I voted for Trump, my vote weighs just as much as a thousand of y'all y'all vote is one one thousandth the weight of mind. That's what I mean by that. And it's again, so that my one vote doesn't get drowned out. Is at least what is sold to us, which is where you get stuff like jerrymandering and all that stuff that we've

talked about before. It's and this was in the spirit of being fair. Now, what that tells a candidate is, you're not so concerned about what the people think per se. You're concerned about the electoral college map, which one of these states have the most points. That's when you hear these things called swing states, purple states, the big Blue Wall, like these are things that have not necessarily anything to

do with the amount of humans in the state. It's the amount of electoral college points you get from it. So what that tells the candidate is, since it's a winner take all, I don't even need to try in states that I know I'm not even gonna win. You win by being the first one to get to two hundred and seventy electoral college votes. So you look at the map and you try to figure out looking at that map, all fifty states where the delegates are broken up from, and you just go, how can I That's

how you make the math work. How do I get to two hundred and seventy? Which states do I need to win? Right to get to that? Which states do I already know? Like forget it throughout the map. I'm never gonna win that, So I don't even calculate that. I'll fight for the ones that could help my math math. That's the strategy. This is where the term battleground state comes from, because it's like, Yo, this is a toss up. I might possibly, I could possibly grab up all these points.

So if you are being smart about your energy, you being smart about your budget, you being smart about your ads, where your voters are, and which one do you have a better chance of snatching up all the points? That's where you put your money in. You put your money, your interest in where you think you could find people that's gonna get you the whole pot. So you take California for example. I think this is the best example.

California is a blue state, Are you sure? Because it's blue because of the Bay Area in LA there's just a lot of people there. Bru You Kaipa, Orange County, Kerrent County. The middle is I mean, it's the middle's rule. Like they're farmers in there. You go up north to Wayrika up in the mountains, they trump folk. It's very conservative.

Remember they they even thought about seceding. There was gonna be Jefferson, the little spot in between and that little land that might as well be Oregon at the top of California and in the bottom of Oregon. In the top of California, they was gonna be their own state. And then Pearl Harbor happens. So that's why they do it.

But like that's it's It may seem like California is this bastion of progressivism, but when you think about the fact that like dog somebody in Visalia or you know why Rika got to pay the same gas prices as us in San Francisco, that's diabolical. They should not have to pay the same people. They should not have to pay the same price. Like that's crazy, you know, But that's just how it is. Because it's one state and California is worth fifty five points, California worth fifty five

points towards your electoral map. You have to ask yourself is the juice worth to squeeze? And if you like, ain't no way in the world I'm gonna win California. Why would you even try? Like, I'm not even gonna try to convince them, because even if because let's just say I win half of the half of the points, if I get half of the votes at California or right under half, it don't matter because all the points gonna go to the other. So I just wasted my time.

If I'm running and I know I'm not gonna win, why would I waste my time trying to convince these people that there's not enough there's not enough people in that state that would choose me in relation to those that wouldn't. And you already got them, Like if you like so obviously using this one, if you Donald Trump, like the Republication here is, you already got them. You know what I'm saying, Like what, oh, I'll do a rally here just because I can feel good, you know

what I'm saying. But like you're way in California. I mean you might be able to pluck off some people, but like you wasting your money here. No, you need to right now, you need to focus on Arizona. You need to focus on, you know, Wisconsin, fam like you got a chance there if you him, so, why would I even try? So? What it does is that incentivizes the candidate to just drill down into their partisans because I'm not gonna win that state anyway. I'm not gonna

get none of those points. So why should I try to get a piece of a pie that if I lose, I don't even get to keep the peace. That don't make no sense, do it. You're teaching me to just govern the people that will vote for me, that's what you're teaching them. Why would you? Are you following what I'm trying to say here? Our system as it stands today, which was made to placate the slave States, is in forcing the type of partisanship that we all hate. Now,

I don't have a solution. One of the solutions is dividing the electoral college based on counties rather than full states. That way more it's a little bit closer to a direct democracy. Because now, since this isn't the seventeen hundreds, women can vote, black and brown people can vote, So we're talking about a whole different set of people that can possibly vote and you know what we all went. We can read. People can read. Now there's such thing

as the internet. It ain't like the seventeen hundreds where you know, you had to vote in public and out loud. Foods will run into your house, drag you out the house, drag you to the polls and be like, I'm a beach your ass unless you vote for this person, that's like a don't of you notice that's how our elections used to be, like just rough like gangs in New York styles, like like they it was violent, homie. Now

it's all private and your business wasn't like that. So we can just like our constitution, just like our democracy, like we feel like we nailed it into seventeen hundreds and it ain't you need no upgrades, Like we all here out here on an os one iPhone which still got the button on it, just swearing we invented something, you know what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, this is what it is. Does that mean that your vote don't count? And oh that sucks. Don't

do that. You're in the ocean. You gotta swim. But this is what the electoral college is. It is a basically we create a brand new Congress, and if the electors do what we told them to do, then our voices is represented. But sometimes they don't. Sometimes they vote their own conscience. Sometimes president pretends like their votes didn't matter and they just pick whole new people to vote. And apparently you can't prosecute said president because he's immute.

But to reiterate again, there has to be a way to make sure that what would seem so simple as one person, one vote, how do you make sure that everybody's voices are heard? And you're right populations like Alaska, you know, in relays, like I said, given the example to California, it's like you're right, Like there's just more of us in LA, you know, But that don't mean that your voices, you know, which the rest of California, which produces a fifth of the country's produce, like, yeah,

like we should y'all should be heard. You know. We arguing over water here in La. It's like we want water because you know, we're off the edge of a desert, and they like, yeah, well we grow your food. Don't you think we should give some water too? I feel you you don't of an answer. I just think the world we got now, I don't think that's the answer. Good politics. All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need you to finish this thing so I can get the

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