How does the United States REALLY elect its president? Learn all about the function (and disfunction) of the Electoral College. 
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 <li>Where did it come from?</li>
 <li>Why are all the states worth different amounts?</li>
 <li>Do we have to use a "winner take all" model?</li>
 <li>Couldn't we just do a regular vote nation-wide?</li>
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How does the United States REALLY elect its president? Learn all about the function (and disfunction) of the Electoral College. Where did it come from? Why are all the states worth different amounts? Do we have to use a "winner take all" model? Couldn't we just do a regular vote nation-wide?

SPECIAL EPISODE - The Electoral College

Join me, an 8th grade American history teacher, on this podcast as I discuss what we are learning about from week to week, why it mattered then, and why it still matters today.

Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Drop of Ocean
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Join me, an 8th grade American history teacher, on this podcast as I discuss what we are learning about from week to week, why it mattered then, and why it still matters today. Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Drop of Ocean License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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