Francis Teaches Me How The Electoral College Works

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Dana B | Francis Tutors Dana Beers

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00:00Good evening, Beardsy.

00:02What's up, brother?

00:03Look at us.

00:04Making the most of what we got.

00:06We're in a bed in a hotel in Miami.

00:09It's you with some minibar wine

00:12and me teaching you on election night

00:16about the Electoral College.

00:18Want to see a magic trick?

00:20Sure.

00:23Wow.

00:24Yeah, man.

00:28There are 538 total electoral votes at stake

00:35in a presidential election.

00:37Oh, is that why that guy Nate Silver's website was...

00:40Yes, 538.

00:41Holy shit!

00:42That's exactly right.

00:43I always wondered what that meant.

00:45Good for you.

00:46Wow.

00:47You can see the Lego blocks falling into place.

00:49Yeah, he's a fucking nerd, that guy.

00:51He's smart, though.

00:52Yeah, but he's a pussy.

00:53Okay.

00:55What's wrong with that?

00:56No, I don't know.

00:57I don't know him enough to know that he's a pussy.

01:00It's like those guys that are fucking talking about the NFL

01:04and they're like, ugh, the analytics.

01:06The political party in each state

01:09selects a certain number of electors, right?

01:14And these are just random folks.

01:16These are folks.

01:17They can't be congresspeople.

01:19Are they picked out of a hat?

01:21No, I think they're people that have done good service

01:24for their political parties.

01:25You know the sorting hat from Harry Potter?

01:27I sure do.

01:28That guy fucks, dude.

01:30He fucks.

01:31Maybe.

01:32I think one of my friends was a sorting hat

01:34for Halloween one year.

01:35Let's stay on point here.

01:36I want to get through this.

01:37Sorry.

01:38So...

01:42These people are basically just chosen

01:44to do a very simple duty,

01:47which is that when the general election happens,

01:52they go to the electoral college,

01:54the electoral voters,

01:56and each electoral voter comes forward and says,

01:58I cast my vote for the candidate

02:02who won the general election of my state.

02:08Yeah, yeah, the last...

02:09You following me?

02:10No, no.

02:11There's a guy, let's call him George,

02:13who has served the Democratic Party well

02:16in the state of Massachusetts.

02:17Could we call him Randy?

02:18Randy.

02:19Randy Massachusetts.

02:20He's handed out stickers.

02:22He's been a guy who's gone around knocking on doors,

02:25canvassing for Democrat candidates in the state for years.

02:30So the Democratic Party in the state of Massachusetts says,

02:34Randy, good news.

02:35We are giving you the honor of being an electoral voter.

02:38All right.

02:39But all that really means is that in December,

02:42Randy knows that the state of Massachusetts

02:45is more voted for the Democratic candidate

02:47than the Republican candidate,

02:49or even a third-party candidate.

02:51So he's going to come forward in December

02:53when it's time to count

02:55all the electoral votes from Massachusetts,

02:57and he says,

02:58I cast my one electoral vote for the Democratic candidate.

03:01There are two states that do not give

03:04all of their electoral votes to one candidate.

03:07Can I guess?

03:08Sure.

03:09Alaska.

03:10Nope.

03:11Hawaii.

03:12No, this could take a while.

03:13Maine.

03:14Yeah, got good beers up there and lobsters.

03:16Maine is one, and the other is?

03:18New Hampshire.

03:19Winner, winner, chicken dinner, is your hint?

03:22Mississippi?

03:23They got great chicken down there.

03:26Nevada.

03:27Winner, winner, chicken dinner does not equal Nevada.

03:29Nevada?

03:30It equals chicken.

03:31Shut up.

03:32The bigger the state,

03:33the more congresspeople you have,

03:35the more electoral votes you have.

03:38It's just people who come forward and say...

03:41Stop yelling at me.

03:43I don't like when you yell at me.

03:44You just...

03:45Sometimes I need to be loud to keep you on track.

03:47I know, but your yelling scares me.

03:48I'm sorry.

03:49They can actually say,

03:50you know what?

03:51Fuck you.

03:52I'm going the other way.

03:53These are called faithless electors.

03:56Normally, you just do what you're supposed to do,

03:59and you say,

04:00I cast my vote for this guy.

04:02If you don't,

04:03are you going to get fucking...

04:05You'd probably be in trouble.

04:06What if you get a,

04:07what's it called when,

04:08a sleeper cell of electoral college guys?

04:12I don't really know what you mean by that.

04:14I don't either.

04:15Like they band together quietly and say,

04:16we think we're actually all going to do this?

04:18Yes, yes.

04:19Then that would be the,

04:20probably the end of the electoral college as we know it.

04:23Something to consider.

04:25I would fucking do faithless votes in a second.

04:28Yeah.

04:29Someone offered me a couple bucks.

04:31That's why the Republican or Democratic party

04:33of your home state of Massachusetts

04:35is not knocking on your door.

04:36But they could.

04:37They know.

04:38If I start going and giving stickers to everyone,

04:41I might be next.

04:43Yeah.

04:44You say this,

04:45and someone tells me you're not going down

04:46to the old sticker store

04:48for the next 20 years

04:50to earn the right to be an electoral voter.

04:52Just in the last four years,

04:54I think six or seven different states

04:56have had either a vote taken away

04:59or added.

05:01And in fact,

05:02Texas has had two votes added.

05:05Isn't that interesting?

05:06Because so many people moved to Texas.

05:08And New York lost a vote.

05:10California lost a vote.

05:12Because people left those states and moved to Texas.

05:14They want to go down to the fucking cowboys.

05:18It is possible mathematically

05:20that you could have a tie in the electoral votes.

05:23What do you think happens if that happens?

05:25The tiebreaker is probably like Puerto Rico or something.

05:30I think the 51st state.

05:32The 51st state.

05:39I like that.

05:40Canada?

05:44Mexico?

05:45No.

05:46Peru?

05:47If there's a tie in the electoral votes,

05:49it goes to the Congress.

05:50I think the PR should take over.

05:52Did you know that

05:54when there's a tie in the Senate

05:57on a vote on legislation,

05:59that tie is broken by

06:01the House of Representatives.

06:03The Vice President.

06:05So there's this little kind of

06:07mutual handshake thing.

06:09I'll break that tie for you.

06:11You break that tie for me.

06:13I like that.

06:14Yada yada.

06:15A little fucking

06:16you rub my back, I'll rub yours.

06:18But go America.

06:19Happy election night.

06:20Looking forward to drinking some wine with you

06:22and watching this unfold.

06:24Let's see how it goes, Francis.

06:26Thank you for teaching me about the EC.

06:28Absolutely, brother.

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