I am so over this situation, Peter. I'm unbumble to find something real. You know, like someone

you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone

who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly getscha, it's waiting for you unbumble.

A fear is back. A Canadian magazine called McClain's tried to explain American elections to their readers.

How can it get nominated? How the field gets winnowed down. This article calls our system mind-boggling.

It turns out that an election takes four times as long in the US as it does in Canada. So if you're

watching the debate later this week, wondering, are we there yet? It's not just you. That's real.

The last thing this magazine tries to explain is the Electoral College. The system our founders set up

to prevent voters from directly electing a president. By this point in the article, the author's tone is

weary. We'll try to explain, she says. But the Electoral College doesn't make a whole lot of sense for modern democracy.

It turns out Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, he pretty much agrees with his sentiment. I asked him to explain the Electoral College.

Here's what he said. It is like a Rue Goldberg device that makes very little sense today that serves a purpose entirely

different from what it was designed to do that mostly works out just fine, but when it doesn't, the results are

catastrophic for presidential legitimacy. When someone like my kids friends tell me like, your vote doesn't count

because of something like the Electoral College. Are they right? Pretty much since you live in New York.

Ever since 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the election anyway, there's been a steady drum beat of voices.

Saying the Electoral College has got to go. Saying that a system that was supposed to temper democratic flights of fancy

has instead ended up ignoring small D democratic will. As a result, presidential candidates cater their campaigns to swing states.

And a lot of the electorate simply tunes out. If you are a Republican in Idaho, you don't have a very strong reason to go out to the polls

because your state is going to go for Trump. It's going to go for Republican. And there's just not that much of an incentive, I think, to vote for the president

because it's a foregone conclusion, which way your state's going to flip.

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