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🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello internet. Right now I am uploading the video to my YouTube channel. |
0:07.0 | This is the one about the sneaky plan for the Electoral College. |
0:10.0 | Now, as part of making my videos, I often make spreadsheets. |
0:16.0 | So here is the spreadsheet that I made while working on the video. |
0:20.0 | And while I'm waiting for that |
0:21.4 | video to upload, I thought, why don't I just talk you through this thing a little bit? This isn't a |
0:26.0 | tight explanation or anything. This is just going to be a scroll down spreadsheet lane with |
0:30.9 | gray as I tell you about some of the things that I did while making the video. Okay, so for this |
0:36.8 | video going up, I originally wanted |
0:38.5 | to have something about apportionment and the electoral college. Every state gets a certain |
0:44.8 | number of votes, Delaware has three, Georgia has 16, Hawaii has four. What are the exact |
0:52.6 | details of how this happens? Now, that part of the video got cut and I |
0:58.6 | was originally thinking it was going to become its own little thing and then that didn't end up |
1:02.8 | going anywhere for reasons that might become obvious as we talk through a bunch of |
1:06.3 | this stuff but so let's begin at the beginning here we we have all of the states, their current estimated populations, |
1:14.8 | the flag of each of these states, very important to have, of course, |
1:18.6 | the electoral college votes that they get. |
1:20.2 | And then the thing that drives many people to madness is how many people per electoral college vote? |
1:29.3 | So this column down here represents how many people does it take in the state to get one electoral college vote? |
1:38.3 | So in Hawaii, for every 355,000 people, there are four electoral college votes. If you go to Arizona, oh, there's the |
1:46.9 | formula, right, it takes 650,000 people per electoral college vote. And you get that number by just |
1:55.4 | dividing the population by the electoral college votes. They're colorized here because I've |
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