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🗓️ 2 June 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:39.3 | Welcome back to the Brian McLanahan Show. This is episode 24. |
0:53.3 | And this is an episode that's going to cover a topic by popular request. So I had a listener email me and asked me to talk about the Electoral College and a proposal that's been floating around since 2011. This has been going around for five years called the National Popular |
1:11.4 | Vote Bill. And I addressed this particular issue in my founding father's guide to the Constitution, |
1:17.4 | but I thought, you know, that is a great topic. Something that most people don't know anything about. |
1:22.0 | We always get, when we do our discussions at Liberty Classroom, we always get our, at least one question every so often |
1:30.6 | about the Electoral College. What do you think about the Electoral College? And so I thought it |
1:37.0 | would be a great topic for a podcast, and so I thank the listener for sending this over to me. |
1:41.9 | But let me summarize what the national popular vote bill does. |
1:46.6 | It delegates the electors in that particular state to whoever wins the total popular vote for president of the United States. |
1:58.5 | So for example, if a state like Alabama was to subscribe to this legislation and pass it |
2:06.2 | in their legislature, then if candidate X won the election overall, the overall popular |
2:15.1 | vote, but candidate Y won the state of Alabama, |
2:17.9 | candidate X would still get all of the electors. |
2:22.0 | So what this essentially is doing is eliminating the electoral college. |
2:26.7 | It's removing the states from the equation. |
2:31.1 | It's making the presidency a popularly elected executive, taking away any chance of having a system where the person who wins the total popular vote still does not win the presidency. |
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