Election Night Special: Where Did The Electoral College Come From?

SmartHERNews

Jenna Lee

Education, News

5 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our SmartHER 8 p.m. central broadcast on Election Night 2024.

We set the table for the night ahead as polls close and results roll in: What to watch. Why it matters. And an easy way to understand, explain and remember the Electoral College.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, everybody.
0:08.3	Welcome to our election night coverage here on Smarter News.
0:11.8	And this is going to look and feel a lot different than some of the coverage that you likely have been paying attention to either deliberately or out of the corner of your eye over the last several hours,
0:21.9	there is a rush to judgment and to call races when it comes to the presidential race for the White
0:30.2	House here in the United States. And we can't forget that we are re-electing or electing
0:36.5	a whole new set of representatives for the House of Representatives
0:40.1	and a third of the Senate. And just under a dozen governors in different states, so it's a big election
0:45.3	night, no matter which way you slice it, but really all eyes are focused on the White House,
0:50.2	as we know every four years. That's the big prize. Which interesting about that is when you
0:55.0	look back on the foundation of America, the founders did not want to create this super strong
1:01.6	federal governments. They wanted a president that had leadership abilities. But the thinking of a, or the
1:09.5	imagining of this very big federal government wasn't what the founders initially intended.
1:16.6	And we have seen over the course of more than 200 years here in the United States that the federal government, the role between the federal government and the states has changed quite a bit.
1:26.2	The dynamics have changed depending on which part of history you're looking at. We happen to be at a part of history where the
1:32.1	federal government is big. And we are at a time, though, where we're seeing states assert certain
1:37.4	rights and certain laws and grow in power in different ways. So this is an interesting time to be
1:42.6	alive in America. And I'm very happy to be sharing this time with you.
1:46.6	I'm going to go ahead and jump over to our Instagram because we're also going to be live on that.
1:52.4	I'm going to go ahead and push live. Sometimes we have to do that for different platforms.
1:56.4	But I appreciate you joining us here live on YouTube. And I look forward to your questions.
1:59.8	That's what we really want to do tonight is just be a place where you can ask some questions
2:04.5	about the process as you see it. And I want to show you what we're looking at right now.
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