In Support of the Popular Vote
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What would America be like if we had simply put into office the candidate for president who actually received the most votes? A movement to bypass the electoral college is gradually gaining strength- but will it be in place before the election?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Very interesting stuff going on in the voting realm right now. |
| 0:20.0 | Maine took a huge step. in the voting realm right now. |
| 0:22.8 | Maine took a huge step. |
| 0:24.8 | The Maine legislature passed provision or a law, |
| 0:28.9 | basically saying that they're joining the other states that right now is a |
| 0:34.2 | now is a two hundred and nine they want to get it up to two hundred and seventy |
| 0:37.6 | when when the majority of the country votes for somebody then these states representing right now |
| 0:45.7 | two hundred nine electoral votes but you know it'll become operational when they |
| 0:49.5 | hit two seventy that these states will give their electoral votes to whoever won the majority vote in the United States. |
| 0:57.0 | In other words, back when in 2000, for example, George W Bush lost that election by a half million votes, |
| 1:06.4 | but he ended up in the White House because of the Electoral College. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, under this provision, and similarly in 2016, Donald Trump lost the popular vote, |
| 1:14.8 | the national vote by 3 million votes. |
| 1:16.4 | He lost the election by 3 million votes, and yet he was also in the White House. |
| 1:21.6 | And I mean, in fact, the last time a Republican was actually elected with the majority of |
| 1:25.7 | Americans say yes we want this person for president was 1988 George Herbert |
| 1:30.4 | Walker Bush that was that was the last time a Republican was actually elected president. |
| 1:36.4 | Can you imagine how different America would be? |
| 1:39.0 | If Bush and Trump had not served, we wouldn't have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
| 1:44.3 | We wouldn't have a right-wing Supreme Court right now. |
| 1:46.4 | Abortion would still be controlled by Roe v. Wade. |
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