The Electoral College
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The United States Electoral College is a body of electors established by the United States Constitution, constituted every four years for the sole purpose of electing the presidentand vice president of the United States. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and an absolute majority of 270 electoral votes is required to win an election. Pursuant to Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, the legislature of each state determines the manner by which its electors are chosen. Each state's number of electors is equal to the combined total of the state's membership in the Senate and House of Representatives; currently there are 100 senators and 435 representatives.[1][2][3] Additionally, the Twenty-third Amendmentprovides that the District of Columbia is entitled to a number of electors no greater than that of the least populous state (i.e., 3).[4]
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| 0:00.0 | Please don't make me do this democracy at work man |
| 0:06.9 | Fine |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the best friends podcast. I'm Eli and I'm Cecil and we're best friends best friends |
| 0:19.2 | Hey guys, what are you doing? Oh? Thank God? Oh? |
| 0:22.1 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. No. What are you doing? What are you doing? |
| 0:27.0 | Uh our new show we started another show |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, we voted and everything. I you voted hey hey New York City. What did we say? |
| 0:38.3 | Uh, I get one one hundred and forty-eighth of a vote |
| 0:41.8 | Exactly bullshit. I'm going to Canada seriously. Yeah sure you are bringing back some legal weed and connoble sex |
| 0:48.2 | I will I don't I don't think that's a thing Canada's known for wait |
| 0:53.5 | I'm sorry guys. Why did he get so little say? Oh? |
| 0:57.8 | We voted using the electoral college. No, it's the subject of today's show and so that's how we voted turns out |
| 1:03.8 | I was born in Wyoming. It's cool right and so |
| 1:08.3 | So my vote counted like way more than he there's Cecil's stupid Chicago, right? But what about Tom? Oh |
| 1:16.0 | He actually voted third party really |
| 1:19.3 | But that doesn't sound like Tom. Sorry. Should have been clear. He's at his third party. I think he's planning on five |
| 1:26.0 | That sounds like Tom. A man loves cake loves cake. He does |
| 1:49.2 | Hello and welcome to citation needed |
| 1:54.8 | No, not not that one that citations needed. I'm sure it's also a good show |
| 2:00.0 | But this is a different this is this is the one where we we laughed too much |
| 2:03.6 | But you get used to it. You can't tell who's who it's it's the whole thing |
| 2:07.6 | But it's the it's the podcast where we choose a subject |
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