Why the Electoral College? Why a Two Party System? Ranked-Choice Voting Systems Explained

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode features Trey and Ken’s responses to the following listener questions: Why do we have the Electoral College? Why isn’t there a way to invalidate fraudulent elections? What would it take for a third party rise to national prominence? Can you explain ranked-choice voting? What do you think about ranked-choice voting in light of the recent Maine election? What We’re Reading A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby by Richard Mahoney Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Welcome to the politics, guys.
0:03.5	The show where we look for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate,
0:08.4	and this is our Wednesday edition.
0:10.9	And so I'm going to point this out twice today,
0:13.0	but I'm going to start at the beginning of the show to let listeners know
0:15.6	that if you were tuning in to listen to Mike's newest interview,
0:26.4	that we have actually spun that off into its own podcast called Politics Plus.
0:33.7	And if you follow us on social media, you might have even noticed that we had asked for a lot of input on the Politics Plus logo and the other things about it.
0:39.5	And you've had a lot of really important feedback in shaping that show. And Politics Plus is now available. And you can find that on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your
0:46.0	podcasts by searching for Politics Plus. The first interview that Mike is doing is actually with the Atlantic columnist and former George W. speech writer, David Fromm, author of Trumpocracy.
1:00.3	And at the end of the show, I'll remind you again about really cool things that are happening on Politics Plus.
1:06.0	But for this Wednesday episode of The Politics Guys, I am joined by Ken Katkin, and we're going to
1:13.8	actually be discussing your questions about politics. So, Ken, it's wonderfully talking to you
1:20.3	again. Oh, yeah, it's great to talk to you again, Trey. So, Ken, we've actually had some really
1:26.0	fascinating questions. And so I just want to tell listeners, we had more questions than we're going to have time to take on. And most of them were just really amazing questions. And so I'm trying to get the ones that I think that we can kind of get in. Maybe you're the most interesting and kind of timely. So if I don't get to yours, my apologies, maybe we'll be able to do that in the
1:48.4	future. And I'm trying to hit the big one. So Ken, I'm going to start with our first listener
1:54.0	question. And this comes from a listener named Jay. No, not Jay, the co-host, another Jay. This
2:00.7	Jay, he's interested in the electoral college.
2:03.7	And he's got a couple parts to his question.
2:06.1	So one, he wants to know, why do we have it?
2:09.2	And then he also wants to know, why can't our Constitution, why doesn't it or why couldn't it,
2:15.4	have a mechanism that could invalidate elections in case of some kind of fraud or craziness?
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