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
Thats not a good thing. One excerpt of what the president said and ask you about my guest this woman it on the other side. Here it is. I wanted to always play it Republican National chairwoman Donna Mcdaniel and michael down. I still like playing it down. Yes, sir. Because i dont want to osterholm. Plus the the man who led the create a panic. To bes russia investigation until he was taken off the case if the president had a because of his antitrump history of playing down things, attacks. President trumps that might be believable, but vulnerabilities are exponentially greater than any president in modern history. Peter strzok suspected then considering what he did with immigration and the caravans and violence in the city, this isnt and Still Believes president is a president who tries to incite compromised by russia and he joins me this morning. Panic or trying to fire folks also, epic wildfires. Up. This doesnt seem to match that. There is no down time because Mother Nature doesnt gi
The rise of Andrew Jackson, mitt, manipulation, and the making of modern politics, in which they examine how Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. We recorded their remarks that the u. S. Capital Historical Society in 2018. I am going to go ahead and start stuff. Welcome to the latest lunchtime lecture. My name is dr. Man tony, oh chief historian here. Welcome. I am really pleased today to introduce you, if you dont already know, to jean and david heidler. They have been speakers here before for their book on George Washingtons circle. And today, we are really honored that we are one day into the official existence of their latest book on Andrew Jackson, the rise of Andrew Jackson. It was just released officially yesterday. We are at the threshold of greatness here with the book. And i hope you all consider buying. It they will be available afterwards to sign for anyone who is interested. And i also want to point out that their previous book, i said they had been here before, i
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Jackson was elected president in 1828. We recorded their remarks at the u. S. Capital Historical Society in 2018. I will go ahead and start stuff. Welcome. Welcome to our latest lunch time texture. Im steve im chief historian at the capitol Historical Society, welcome. I am really pleased today to introduce you if you dont already know to jeanne and david heidler. They have been speakers here before for their book on George Washington circle. Today we are really honored that we are one day in to the official existence of their latest book on Andrew Jackson. The rise of Andrew Jackson. It was officially released yesterday. So we are at the threshold of greatness here. The book will be available afterwards, they will be available to sign it for anyone interested. I went to point out that their previous book was washington circle, we are also selling discounted copies of that back there. I am told that the hardcover that we are selling is five cents more than amazons soft cover. So that s