Is Dennis Prager Stupid or Evil?
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A GREAT example of @prageru MISINFORMATION:
This video offers a Civics Lesson in the Electoral College but distorts some ‘facts’. The founders were afraid of the majority – poor people – Federalist 10.
Founders also enacted the 2/3rds Compromise, Slave Trade Commerce compromise and the wrong way to calculate the VP (that was changed by the 12th Amendment – so we are not perfect then or now)
The PragerU video talks about the 3 branches of government and checks and balances? Madisonian democracy. That was in response to ‘two wolves, one lamb’ argument. We have a bicameral legislature and a senate and house because of the Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise. The video explains what it takes to amend the constitution. Abolishing the Electoral College is one amendment that can be done that way.
The PragerU video explains the Electors. Then the video goes off the tracks BIG-TIME!!
PragerU: “The system encourages coalition building and national campaigning”
No, it doesn’t! In 44-46 states NO coalition of any type is needed!
Electoral Map: Blue or Red States Since 2000
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PragerU: “In order to win, a candidate must have the support of many different types of voters from various parts of the country”
This is NOT TRUE! The @gop and @dnc are guaranteed their states every four years. Four to six ‘swing states’ are the only states in play.
Swing States in the Presidential Election
Same Since 2000 Electoral Map
Types of voters?
How Groups Voted in 2016
This @prageru video is just making things up now with no basis in fact.
No Sectionalism? Really?
PragerU: “Winning only the south or the midwest is not get enough”
The ‘sectionalism’ is urban vs rural – the reason the swing states ARE the swing states – they are close to 50/50 in urban v rural. Now is when the @prageru really plays fast and loose with their now blatant lies:
Prageru: “The biggest cities, the biggest states’.
This lis has been repeated so many times a lot of my friends believe it. Let’s look at the States the video has highlighted. California? 39,557,045 – or 12% of US Population Texas? 28,701,845 – 8.7% Florida? 21,299,325 – 6.5% Georgia? 10,519,475 – 3.2% North Carolina? 10,383,620 – 3.2% Illinois? 12,741,080 – 3.9% Ohio? 11,689,442 – 3.6% Michigan? 9,995,915 – 3.1% Pennsylvania? 12,807,060 – 3.9% New York? 19,542,209 – 6%
So these 10 states represent 54% of population.
http://www.togetherweteach.com/TWTIC/uscityinfo/uscities.htm
46% of the US is in the other 40 states. So a candidate can NOT just focus on these 10 states to the detriment of the other 40! Big cities? Top 25 CITIES make up 11.6% of US Population. MSAs? Top 25 from New York to Seattle? 51% – so Large Cities argument is bogus as well!
PragerU: “Safe and swing states are constantly changing”
What is their definition of CONSTANTLY?
How has your state voted in the past 15 elections?
How red or blue is your state?
(from 2014 – here is updated after 2016 election: Blue – “WASHINGTON Voted for Democratic president in last eight elections”
You are going 1988 California? Dukakis?
Since 1984 – 8 Elections – 20 states have voted for the same party EVERY Time. 17 more have only deviated once or twice. Constantly changing @prageru ?
PragerU: “Texas used to vote Democrat”
Here’s how Texas voted in every presidential election since 1976
A little disingenuous here @PragerU – The last time Texas voted Blue was 1976 for Carter over Ford.
The 1960s Democrats were against Civil Rights and Integration and a lot of southern states voted blue back then.
PragerU: “Neither New Hampshire or Virginia used to be swing states”
New Hampshire Virginia
West Virginia decisive for Bush over Gore @prageru ?
Did you forget to mention that Al Gore’s Home State of Tennessee is a RED state and if Gore had carried Tennessee HE would have won regardless of Florida OR West Virginia?
Tennessee turnout cost Gore the presidency
PragerU: “every voter in every state is important”
THIS IS THE BIGGEST OF MANY LIES TOLD BY PRAGERU IN THIS VIDEO!
We know from campaign spending by state. We know number of candidate visits by states. We know from election results by state that this IS A LIE! Out of 134 million votes, 80,000 voters in 3 states determined the 2016 election.
Donald Trump will be president thanks to 80,000 people in three states
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To recap – States have been consistently blue or red since 1988. 44-46 states have NO IMPACT on the election. The @prageru video is WRONG. #AbolishElectoralCollege
