I’ve been watching several videos on US elections and found this one to be very clear. The process still seems insane but combined with your illustrations, you explained it quite well.
Yes that should be reformed. I mean Canada has a good system but you need 3 major parties(In Canada we have New Democrat, Liberal and Conservative) for it to work because you don't vote for Prime Minster instead you vote for your areas rep. in Parliament and whichever party has the most seats gets there party leader as Prime Minster.
JK Low not really. It's designed to protect smaller states. See without it a candidate could only focus on four states, not get a single vote in say West Virginia or Montana and still be elected president.
Not really.(sorry it took so long to get back to you) The problem is, without the system we use, you could focus on just arg cities, and thats it. If you look at the map broken up into how many counties each candidate won, Clinton only won large cities. Infact, in New York, she only won NYC, in California she only won the east coast and captial city, in Washinton, she only won Seattle, yet all these states had their electorial votes go to CLinton despite losing the vast majority of the states
I don't understand how single cities matter. 60% of the population did not and does not support the current administration. That's not my opinion. How do you want to build a politically stable country if the majority wants another president?
The reason why single cities matter, is because in some large states, thats where the vast majority of their citizens live. Let's take a look at New York for example. There are about 62 counties in New York, Clinton only claimed 14 of them, while Trump claimed 58. With the exception of one, all the counties Hillary won were just New York City. Also the claim that 60% is somewhat misleading. according to one of the most accurate political polls, Trump's approval rating is rangng between 44% and 59%, while his "strongly approval rating is what is reported on the news. I think an ammendment to the Electorial College might be in order, where the electoral votes are won, not by popular vote alone, but the number of counties each canadate won in the state. Say if Canadtes John Marshall and Benijiman Asher(fictional presidents from the films Air Force One and Olymbus has Fallen) were running, If Marshal won more counties in Virgina that Asher, that Marshal should get that states electorial votes. If Asher won more counties in Florida than Marshal, that Asher should get Florida's electorial votes.
Thank you so much for this great explanation! I watched several of these videos and yours is the best. I‘ll soon pass my oral Abitur exam in English with the main topic „The USA“ and this video is so helpful. Thank‘s a lot.
Nope, Germany's process to elect a chancellor is even more retarded and anti-democratic. And never mention UK, and other European countries, where they elect their prime ministers without even giving a shit about the people's preferences.
I pledge alleigance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the... Democracy? I dont think so. the Us is a republic. Democracy is tyranny of the majority.
I don't live in the US, so here's a couple questions: Do the Electors (for the primaries) and the Delegates (for the presidential vote) have campaigns of their own? Do people actually know who they are?
Ja Ha the delegates and electors are chosen by the parties themselves and the people have no idea who they are. They do not run and have a campaign as would make the election process for more complicated.
This is bullshit so why are even voting when this electors decide? So if Biden wins the state these mfs can give it to trump? Plz someone explain this bs
So basically the American people could elect Candidate 1,,, but If candidate 2 gets more electoral votes, then Candidate 2 becomes president. Yep sounds like the whole system is Rigged to me. America needs a Petition to change this process and let the '' Legal, Registered American Citizen Voter Decide''
@Deborah Lancaster Are you uneducated? This is objectively not the best voting system a democracy can have. Popular vote doesn't decide who gets to be the president, a huge chunk of votes is not even taking into consideration and not every vote has the same weight. A republic is per definition a state that is run democratically. This however is completely contradicting a fair democratic process. Small parties don't even have a chance because of the 'winner takes all' principle. Howver, corruption is also legal in your country and most americans don't understand politics enough to do something about it, so why am I even arguing with you.
im from the philippines.. we only have 1 election day, registered voters 18 above vote for who they think or believe is the deserving/truly the next president (straightforward) no "electors" whatever is that.
The reason the United States uses electors, is becasue without the electoaial system, a presidential canidate can ignore most of the country and still be elected to the White House
Screwed up the electors part, but other than that, essentially correct. A state never has “x number of electors supporting a Democrat and y number of electors supporting a Republican.” All electors will be made up of partisan supporters and are selected by the political party whose candidate won the state’s election. So in the video’s example, there won’t be six Democrats and four Republicans as electors all voting for the winner, but if the Democrat candidate wins, all ten electors will already be Democrats supporting (presumably) their party’s candidate.
they never reached to the election day. The fight has always been between the Democrats and Republicans so most of videos or news hardly ever mention about them.
I understand. the problem is people should think of other choices, especially at a time when everybody is busy making jokes about how the two major candidates are bad!! but I rarely found anything about other candidates. I just read their names once or twice. I think the fight between independents and various parties had existed for sometime in American history; and I think it should come back. regarding my question, I just wanted to say that a video like this should explain the general system of the election, not only following the famous idea; I think people should be encouraged to look at the various choices.
As a Belgian guy, I can honestly say that i'm scared. I think the president of the United States should be Mr. Obama until he isn't capable of doing so anymore. Then Trump will be too old to be able to run for president. World war 3 avoided like a baws !
Peter Selie According to the United States construction, Obama cannot be president anymore. See after world war 2 congress added that rule so presidents don't stay in two long as president Roosevelt was elected four times(died at the start of his fourth term). Also Trump isn't the one who's going to start World War 3, Hillary Clinton would have with her "no fly zone" policy and threaten Russia with military action if they were accused of hacking.
Umm...so how does the beginning work? You say in some states everybody, in other states only elected voters may vote for the one they want as presidential candidate, but then you also say that these votings where the candidate is determined are not done by the electorate, but only by the delegates. So what? How is the candidate determined?
like almost every time in this kinds of presentations you forget to mention WHY the system functions like this and what are the alternatives in other countries, learning by comparison, welcome to other tens of execrable presentations
Wait. So in the case "winner takes all" 4 electors, who did not support the candidate A, would still be counted as supporting him, because 6 were in favour of the candidate A? Did I understand that correctly? And no one has problem with that? If one state has 10 and another one has 20 electors, according to their population size, and in the first state 4 electors support candidate A, while in the second 11 are for candidate A, what then? It is 15:15 in such case, but if "winner takes all" candidate A wins 20:10. Please, tell me I got it wrong, this is not ok.
mieguistumas yes you got that right. I know it seems like it's unfair to states with small populations and I sort of agree. if you want more info about how smaller states are represented fairly look at the Connecticut compromise in US history.
So the winner every time can be predicted by trend? i mean every state electors are always the same every election? so complicated yet unnessesary process.
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Everytime they have an election I feel using a hammer and some nails on my ears and eyes....and I live in Canada. I don't even live there yet I still have to put up with the year long FREAK SHOW, due to the Canadian and American media. Thank god it not so painful in Canada, but some years a go the conservatives started incorporated the American style mud slinging. They call an election usually April or May, they quickly do their bus tours across the country. It dies during the summer. In September it starts up sloly, they then usually do a full month of battle and we vote. Much less painful
So is the President elected using First past the post as in the UK (despite the electors having to vote during the national conventions). It certainly is not proportional representation.
@Deborah Lancaster "mob rule" ... America is not a free country, you guys don't have a real democracy, are like rank 48th on freedom of the press, most of your media is owned by billionairs who propagate a neo-liberalism and you are too blind to realize that it's all bullshit. I mean corruption is pretty much legal in America, yet nobody does something to prevent it. Both of your parties are falling completely align on 90% of the issues. Pathetic.
I dont really understand the election at all the primary then the actual election were the two parties who won the primary. I think any ways however idk how they figure up all the votes and that. All I know is during the election everyone is always freaking out making sure they make it to vote even though I truely believe the peoples votes dont matter in the actual election vote its just a hoaks to make all the people who vote every year the belief that there voice and opinions matter in deciding who should be in charge of keeping our nation alive and running smoothly. I believe our votes arent used at all its just to satisfy us.
for the democratic party yes. HOWEVER, you have to remember super delegates which btw is so undemocratic bc these super delegates do not have to listen to the people of the state they are representing.
So if people from California want Bernie Sanders as a majority, he gets most of the delegates in that state but super delegates from California do not have to represent their people. They can literally vote for Clinton bc they want to. That's why she got 400 super delegates before the entire presidential election even began.
You want to go for a political position and you don't have any form of spiritual backing I must tell you what a joker you are because you will not only lavish your money on campaign and end up not winning you will as well be endangering your life and that of your family. Chief Wole does it all for those of us in Africa and a few from western countries and today he's made me deputy secretary general in the U.N, this is how it works!
I’ve been watching several videos on US elections and found this one to be very clear. The process still seems insane but combined with your illustrations, you explained it quite well.
i still dont get it, the more you explain the more it gets complicated!
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I think the main problem with this system is that winner takes all for every state. In that case, you are not representing the voters properly.
Yes that should be reformed.
I mean Canada has a good system but you need 3 major parties(In Canada we have New Democrat, Liberal and Conservative) for it to work because you don't vote for Prime Minster instead you vote for your areas rep. in Parliament and whichever party has the most seats gets there party leader as Prime Minster.
LOL...what a fucked-up system.
JK Low not really. It's designed to protect smaller states. See without it a candidate could only focus on four states, not get a single vote in say West Virginia or Montana and still be elected president.
Which will lead to small states being happy and the big ones unhappy?
Not really.(sorry it took so long to get back to you) The problem is, without the system we use, you could focus on just arg cities, and thats it. If you look at the map broken up into how many counties each candidate won, Clinton only won large cities. Infact, in New York, she only won NYC, in California she only won the east coast and captial city, in Washinton, she only won Seattle, yet all these states had their electorial votes go to CLinton despite losing the vast majority of the states
I don't understand how single cities matter. 60% of the population did not and does not support the current administration. That's not my opinion. How do you want to build a politically stable country if the majority wants another president?
The reason why single cities matter, is because in some large states, thats where the vast majority of their citizens live. Let's take a look at New York for example. There are about 62 counties in New York, Clinton only claimed 14 of them, while Trump claimed 58. With the exception of one, all the counties Hillary won were just New York City. Also the claim that 60% is somewhat misleading. according to one of the most accurate political polls, Trump's approval rating is rangng between 44% and 59%, while his "strongly approval rating is what is reported on the news. I think an ammendment to the Electorial College might be in order, where the electoral votes are won, not by popular vote alone, but the number of counties each canadate won in the state. Say if Canadtes John Marshall and Benijiman Asher(fictional presidents from the films Air Force One and Olymbus has Fallen) were running, If Marshal won more counties in Virgina that Asher, that Marshal should get that states electorial votes. If Asher won more counties in Florida than Marshal, that Asher should get Florida's electorial votes.
Thank you so much for this great explanation! I watched several of these videos and yours is the best. I‘ll soon pass my oral Abitur exam in English with the main topic „The USA“ and this video is so helpful. Thank‘s a lot.
The most undemocratic process in all democracies!
exactly
Nope, Germany's process to elect a chancellor is even more retarded and anti-democratic. And never mention UK, and other European countries, where they elect their prime ministers without even giving a shit about the people's preferences.
I pledge alleigance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the... Democracy?
I dont think so. the Us is a republic. Democracy is tyranny of the majority.
Its a republic not a democracy ... but as a european im shocked to see that this truly undemocratic system still sees use in the frickin usa ...
Because the United States' Blend of the two government types is more fair than pure democracy and more fair than a republic
Excellent. I wish you had Explained the Nebraska and Maine oddity as ell.
I don't live in the US, so here's a couple questions: Do the Electors (for the primaries) and the Delegates (for the presidential vote) have campaigns of their own? Do people actually know who they are?
Ja Ha same question here !
Ja Ha the delegates and electors are chosen by the parties themselves and the people have no idea who they are. They do not run and have a campaign as would make the election process for more complicated.
This is bullshit so why are even voting when this electors decide? So if Biden wins the state these mfs can give it to trump? Plz someone explain this bs
@@tongasamoa89 the electors are mostly required to vote for whoever wins the popular vote in that state.
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5:06 I love how you had to make the person both genders to not offend people.
People will still get pissed off as there are "more genders" hahahhaha
Basically, the American people have already lost... again.
This is way too complicated. All votes should be counted. 1 person 1 vote. Count them all.
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Sam T Agreed. Do away with the Electoral College nonsense. 1 person 1 vote. Most votes wins. ..like a real democracy.
Oh yeah then watch LA and NYC control the elections while Cheyenne has no voice in it
@@darthvestius7771 The U.S. is NOT a democracy.
simply explained. Thanks
So basically the American people could elect Candidate 1,,, but If candidate 2 gets more electoral votes, then Candidate 2 becomes president. Yep sounds like the whole system is Rigged to me. America needs a Petition to change this process and let the '' Legal, Registered American Citizen Voter Decide''
johnny30806 Please explain how it your suggestion will work
3:36 the republicans: "oh no" hahah loved it!
Well explained
Wow...My head suddenly hurt...I can't believe that is how they conduct their election.
@Deborah Lancaster Are you uneducated? This is objectively not the best voting system a democracy can have. Popular vote doesn't decide who gets to be the president, a huge chunk of votes is not even taking into consideration and not every vote has the same weight. A republic is per definition a state that is run democratically. This however is completely contradicting a fair democratic process. Small parties don't even have a chance because of the 'winner takes all' principle. Howver, corruption is also legal in your country and most americans don't understand politics enough to do something about it, so why am I even arguing with you.
im from the philippines.. we only have 1 election day, registered voters 18 above vote for who they think or believe is the deserving/truly the next president (straightforward) no "electors" whatever is that.
Juna Isabel Gulleban shame you guys elected that crazy man...Colombia is the same as your system.
The reason the United States uses electors, is becasue without the electoaial system, a presidential canidate can ignore most of the country and still be elected to the White House
Thats the best way because in India we have the same process
deeply undemocratic
deeply republican though. The US is a republic, not a democracy. No shit it's going to be unDEMOCRATIC.
@@reizayin A republic literally means a country with a constitution. People need to stop using that word. It means nothing
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And the best system so far.
Yeah the US is a republic not a democracy...
@@michaelheeheejackson7255 that is not correct.
Thank you for this video! It explains the process very well!
Great Informative !
Screwed up the electors part, but other than that, essentially correct.
A state never has “x number of electors supporting a Democrat and y number of electors supporting a Republican.” All electors will be made up of partisan supporters and are selected by the political party whose candidate won the state’s election. So in the video’s example, there won’t be six Democrats and four Republicans as electors all voting for the winner, but if the Democrat candidate wins, all ten electors will already be Democrats supporting (presumably) their party’s candidate.
Hi Explainity, Informative video!! can you tell which software you used for creating this video content ?
very informative, thanks
thank you
This is so fucking helpful, thanks :D
Can u wirte the hall text down cause i need it for my english project.
just turn the subtitels on
That still didn't help. It's so confusing!
sir plz make video about uk general elections
so what was the point of public voting????
You didnt mention the democratic super delegates
what about other parties, or independent people?
they never reached to the election day. The fight has always been between the Democrats and Republicans so most of videos or news hardly ever mention about them.
I understand.
the problem is people should think of other choices, especially at a time when everybody is busy making jokes about how the two major candidates are bad!!
but I rarely found anything about other candidates. I just read their names once or twice.
I think the fight between independents and various parties had existed for sometime in American history; and I think it should come back.
regarding my question, I just wanted to say that a video like this should explain the general system of the election, not only following the famous idea; I think people should be encouraged to look at the various choices.
they never reached to the election day?!!!!
what does that mean? do they have to go through some process before they qualify to be elected?!
Purity Prince They never reach the day of elections means that they usually get less or no suppory
Everything seems pretty good. Looking forward to getting started.
I think im going to created a chart with my own explanations to really help me understand American politics
American politics is more like a reality tv show than anything except it isn't scripted
As a Belgian guy, I can honestly say that i'm scared.
I think the president of the United States should be Mr. Obama until he isn't capable of doing so anymore. Then Trump will be too old to be able to run for president. World war 3 avoided like a baws !
Peter Selie According to the United States construction, Obama cannot be president anymore. See after world war 2 congress added that rule so presidents don't stay in two long as president Roosevelt was elected four times(died at the start of his fourth term). Also Trump isn't the one who's going to start World War 3, Hillary Clinton would have with her "no fly zone" policy and threaten Russia with military action if they were accused of hacking.
Can the delegates sway in favour of other candidates or they are bound to one particular candidate ?
Nikhil Sharma they can choose who they want
election process was always an issue with regards to maths and fairness towards multiple candidates
Why don't you make it simple so that even a buggy man know how to vote?
very complicated .i came here because it was a listening lecture in the toefl test and i wanted to understand it
Anyone else see how they slipped in the transgender agenda in the end?
God this was way better than crash course...
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What an incredibly longdrawn affair this process is!
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2020 anyone
How archaic is this process
selbalamir Not really
The number of electors does not only depend on population!!!! Make an update pls
Umm...so how does the beginning work? You say in some states everybody, in other states only elected voters may vote for the one they want as presidential candidate, but then you also say that these votings where the candidate is determined are not done by the electorate, but only by the delegates. So what? How is the candidate determined?
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like almost every time in this kinds of presentations you forget to mention WHY the system functions like this and what are the alternatives in other countries, learning by comparison, welcome to other tens of execrable presentations
How did Russia???.....Knew....about the weakliness...of political voting process
and influenced on its effect???
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the news in my country stole this video and added their own voice over
Then your news could get punished for copyright, unless they asked permission
Yammy De Archer yeah i don't think they asked but that's why i said it
Hm... might wanna wait and see if the creator of this video applies
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i still don't understand this
Me neither :s As someone from another country this is kinda hard to understand.
Wait. So in the case "winner takes all" 4 electors, who did not support the candidate A, would still be counted as supporting him, because 6 were in favour of the candidate A? Did I understand that correctly? And no one has problem with that? If one state has 10 and another one has 20 electors, according to their population size, and in the first state 4 electors support candidate A, while in the second 11 are for candidate A, what then? It is 15:15 in such case, but if "winner takes all" candidate A wins 20:10. Please, tell me I got it wrong, this is not ok.
mieguistumas yes you got that right. I know it seems like it's unfair to states with small populations and I sort of agree. if you want more info about how smaller states are represented fairly look at the Connecticut compromise in US history.
So the winner every time can be predicted by trend? i mean every state electors are always the same every election? so complicated yet unnessesary process.
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Funny how they forget the independent
That's a complicated elections
Makes a little sense
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Smart guy who doesn't believe that climate change is real xD
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So whats the purpose of the popular vote?
Everytime they have an election I feel using a hammer and some nails on my ears and eyes....and I live in Canada. I don't even live there yet I still have to put up with the year long FREAK SHOW, due to the Canadian and American media.
Thank god it not so painful in Canada, but some years a go the conservatives started incorporated the American style mud slinging.
They call an election usually April or May, they quickly do their bus tours across the country. It dies during the summer. In September it starts up sloly, they then usually do a full month of battle and we vote. Much less painful
You'd have the join them as the above is the definition of corrupt
Vote for Trump from India
So is the President elected using First past the post as in the UK (despite the electors having to vote during the national conventions). It certainly is not proportional representation.
What happens when a candidate goes for mass cheating ?
Heh now I can roast my class by showing them this after they said that "No such things as electors only the people do it you are so wrong"
I can see that the creator of this video is a Democrats' supporter :D
Are the electors the same people than the delegates ? or is there a new vote ?
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I want to know why we can't just go vote by vote.!!
am i the only one who noticed the half-female president at 5:06 ?
1 person 1 vote is the real democracy
Fariz Nugraha Because we aren’t a democracy!
@Deborah Lancaster "mob rule" ... America is not a free country, you guys don't have a real democracy, are like rank 48th on freedom of the press, most of your media is owned by billionairs who propagate a neo-liberalism and you are too blind to realize that it's all bullshit. I mean corruption is pretty much legal in America, yet nobody does something to prevent it. Both of your parties are falling completely align on 90% of the issues. Pathetic.
The Republicans must make demonstrations against the supreme courts which were not honest.
If he won't leave in 2020, why would he leave in 2024? Think!! Then mask up. and go to vote!
I dont really understand the election at all the primary then the actual election were the two parties who won the primary. I think any ways however idk how they figure up all the votes and that. All I know is during the election everyone is always freaking out making sure they make it to vote even though I truely believe the peoples votes dont matter in the actual election vote its just a hoaks to make all the people who vote every year the belief that there voice and opinions matter in deciding who should be in charge of keeping our nation alive and running smoothly. I believe our votes arent used at all its just to satisfy us.
Wait so.. if Bernie gets more than A half delegates, he's can be an official president candidate?
for the democratic party yes. HOWEVER, you have to remember super delegates which btw is so undemocratic bc these super delegates do not have to listen to the people of the state they are representing.
So if people from California want Bernie Sanders as a majority, he gets most of the delegates in that state but super delegates from California do not have to represent their people. They can literally vote for Clinton bc they want to. That's why she got 400 super delegates before the entire presidential election even began.
How many time the same president be standup for election? In US
Pranav Borse twice
Pranav Borse Twice, the only President who was allowed to serve more than two was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945).
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I still didn't understand,,, plz make it simple so Indian can understand
Warum ist das System so seltsam? XD
why so complicated
that my exam thanks xDD
We Indians also want somewhat this kinda system....
Our dumb politicans ignore People for 5 years once they are elected by the People
It's very complicate...
WHAT?????.. Who are the Electors? and how did there vote become
You want to go for a political position and you don't have any form of spiritual backing I must tell you what a joker you are because you will not only lavish your money on campaign and end up not winning you will as well be endangering your life and that of your family. Chief Wole does it all for those of us in Africa and a few from western countries and today he's made me deputy secretary general in the U.N, this is how it works!
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