Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. Hugh laurie. Writer and actress, rachel bloom music from lp. Featuring the 8g band with Valerie Franco and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats great to hear lets get to the news. Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said yesterday that republican senator Lindsey Graham pressured him to find a way to toss legally cast absentee ballots to reverse President Trumps loss in the state man, just when you think Lindsey Graham couldnt sink any lower. Why would you think that according to the new york times, President Trump last week asked his senior advisers about moving ahead with a military strike in iran. And i think its a bad sign that im just relieved he didnt ask about michigan maybe just the upper part the upper finger im pretty sure its called the finger. President elect joe biden has reportedly told advisers privately that he doesnt want to spend his entir
Today we are going to start a week of starting specifically prof. Curry today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why its important, why most political scholars hate the Electoral College. With the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the Electoral College but its a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. I do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president , but very few americans understand the process. If you take a course in the american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. But also because its really important in how it structures how elections turnout. Just like how we started our discussions of president ial nominations by
Arizona, georgia, michigan, and pennsylvania. Rnc says the purpose is to make sure there is no malfeasance. In the press release they did suggest democrats were engaged in some sort of manipulation of the vote count. Were going to keep an eye on that as we keep an eye on the ongoing vote count. A closer look at the numbers, starting in georgia which is just razor thin, a statistical dead heat, democrats have not carried this state in a president ial election since 92. Each candidate has 49. 4 of the vote. Theyre continuing to count absentee ballots but biden is ahead by 1100 votes. A live look in arizona, this is maricopa county. 90 of the vote in there right now, looking a little sleepy in the vote counting room. Biden is up about 47,000 points and maricopa has more than 200,000 ballots outstanding. So we are keeping an eye on that as well as pennsylvania this morning. It looks like we are going to have potentially some solid results by the end of the day. We will keep you posted. Bac
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In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative