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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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