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The Hartmann Report

WHITHER THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Climate Change, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Democracy, Debate, Economics, America, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Thom welcomes conservative professor and author Robert M. Hardaway to debate the question of the electoral college. Would a national popular vote undermine democracy?

George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote, by a half-million and 3 million votes respectively, yet occupied the White House even though a majority of Americans didn’t want them there.

If we don’t get money out of our politics and enforce the laws against foreign meddling in our elections, we may well see the end of the American experiment in democracy. The stakes have never been higher.


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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

0:15.0

Tom Hartman here with you, live from our shelter and place here in the Great Pacific Northwest.

0:22.0

And a lot has happened over the weekend in addition

0:26.0

to the summer solstice right the longest day of the year was I believe it was

0:30.0

yesterday perhaps the day before but it was the summer solstice, the official

0:33.7

beginning, astronomical beginning of summer. It also means the days are going to

0:38.0

start getting shorter. It's interesting where my chair sits in our living

0:42.1

room when we're watching TV or

0:43.7

watching the news or whatever. The sun hits me at different places at different times

0:48.2

you know over the last two months or so it's it's just fascinating to actually

0:52.4

watch it move across the sky and

0:54.3

attend to that. There's a lot going on and one of the things that I wanted to

1:00.8

point out is that the thousand two hundred person arena.

1:13.0

But they're saying that the reason why this happened

1:16.0

was because thousands of teenagers,

1:18.0

I mean Foxes even, this apparently started

1:21.0

with fans of Korean music, K-pop fans, over on Tik-Tock.

1:26.4

They were getting tickets to the Trump rally and therefore only 6,200 people showed up.

1:32.6

But no matter how many tickets

1:35.3

teenagers got, and apparently there is this,

1:37.6

there was this organized thing

1:38.8

and several hundred thousand

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