{"id":113871,"date":"2024-10-14T01:47:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113871"},"modified":"2024-10-14T01:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:47:51","slug":"walz-is-wrong-about-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113871","title":{"rendered":"Walz is wrong about the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Harris campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/walz-says-electoral-college-needs-to-go-campaign-says-thats-not-its-position\/\">speedily intervened to correct Walz<\/a> (which is becoming a habit), with a statement explaining that abolishing the Electoral College is not the Harris campaign\u2019s position \u2014 and indeed that Tim Walz himself \u201cbelieves that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support \u2026 .\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">I think, um, all of us know just how honored he really is. But Walz, all the same, is exactly right about the effect of the Electoral College system. As much as he and his Golden State bankrollers might prefer to live in a different world, the Electoral College is precisely why, in real-world American presidential politics, Beaver County matters, as well as Beverly Hills. It\u2019s why York, Pennsylvania, matters right alongside New York, New York. And it\u2019s why western Wisconsin counts almost as much as Westchester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">America\u2019s constitutional framers had their own, somewhat different reasons for inventing the Electoral College. But today, without it \u2014 under a national popular vote system \u2014 presidential candidates (and, thus, presidents) would care almost exclusively about maximizing support and running up vote totals in densely populated areas like coastal California, the northeastern seaboard, Houston, Phoenix, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">But because the Electoral College means that presidential elections actually unfold through 50 separate state elections, with states deciding how to allocate their electoral votes (and most choosing winner-take-all arrangements), presidential hopefuls must, as Walz says, seek to win in many different places. They must find support in at least some states where rural and small-town interests and sensibilities compete with big-city perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Consider this: In 2016, Hillary Clinton famously won the nationwide popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, but lost the election to Donald Trump in the Electoral College, doing much to enflame American progressives\u2019 distaste for the college. What\u2019s worth noting is that Clinton\u2019s popular vote margin that year <i>within the borders of California<\/i> was well over 4 million votes. In short, outside California, Trump won the popular vote across 49 states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rt-Box w-full\">\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">It was the extreme concentration of Clinton\u2019s 2016 support \u2014 her lack of broad appeal around the country \u2014 that defeated her under the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/walz-is-wrong-about-the-electoral-college\/601161679\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harris campaign speedily intervened to correct Walz (which is becoming a habit), with a statement explaining that abolishing the Electoral College is not the Harris campaign\u2019s position \u2014 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113871\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}