Time to rethink the Electoral College?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In next week's election, some votes will count more than others. That's because it'll finally be decided by the Electoral College — not by majority rule. Has one of the Constitutional compromises lost its usefulness, or should the electors chosen by each of the 50 states have even more power against the passions of populism?
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| 0:30.4 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International. This is To the Point. |
| 0:38.8 | The presidential election and the founding fathers. |
| 0:45.4 | Hello again. I'm Aronalny and this is To the Point. Whatever happens next Tuesday, |
| 0:49.3 | this year's election won't really be over until the 19th of December. That's when the |
| 0:53.0 | Electoral College will get together. |
| 0:55.4 | Like it or not, its 538 voters could counteract tens of millions of Democrats and Republicans, |
| 1:01.2 | as they did when George W. Bush was elected 16 years ago. It's either the wisdom or the folly |
| 1:06.6 | of the founding fathers, one of the compromises made for passage of the Constitution. |
| 1:11.7 | We'll hear how the Electoral College works and how it could make for real uncertainty |
| 1:15.3 | in the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. |
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