MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes August 31, 2019 00:07:00
Or governor or senator, you win if you get the most votes. that's it. that's the principle. there is one exception, president of the united states. now, there are all kinds of people who will tell you this is god for all sorts of reasons, and they're all wrong. a few things to note, one, the idea that historically this had anything to do with like the representation of the rural areas against the urban elites is bunk. america was, as you might recall, pretty darn rural at the time of the constitution's drafting, right? the real genesis of the electoral college was the belief shared by a lot of...
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