Florida basically flips a coin every election to see who they're gonna vote for unless like every other state wants to vote for someone

@Diana Laura no no no you misunderstood it doesn't matter what policies are we just flip a coin and go with it

Everyone's always mad at Florida. Screw the politics. Florida man got it real bad, honestly. :(

LOL

Minnesota is pretty consistent blue lol and it's dead center

But you chose when you could watch. Most likely meaning that you wanted to watch it on your own time, not when your history teacher told you.

You're gonna need to know history to make informed decisions in almost every aspect of your life. Make sure to pay attention.

LMAOOOO

Yes, because this video is probably a 100 time more dynamic than your teacher and your history book. And, imho, because it involves storytelling. I did this experiment once when I was in high school. A few months before our final exams, our teacher decided we'd do presentations in twos instead of writing any more tests so we can focus on preparing to the exams more. The topic my friend and I chose was the military actions of our underground army against the occupant (Germany) during WWII. We decided to take on less actions but to deeper about them. So the way I presented the one I chose was I would outline the preparation process and the original plan, including a map of our city (where that action took place), then the action itself in details and how it ended and its consequences. I also made sure to use the participants' codenames and to not spoil events ahead. I included old photographs and documents in my presentation as well. I swear I haven't seen our class as quiet and focused during a history lesson that wouldn't be a test for a long time, if at all. Everyone was so invested because it was a fascinating, emotional story unfolding before them and not knowing the outcome (like "so they killed the SS officer but 3 of them died and hundreds of random innocent civilians were shot in blind nazi revenge) made them listen in silence because they didn't want to miss anything. Gotta admit, visiting the newly opened museum of Warsaw Uprising (my high school was in Warsaw, which is the capital city of Poland, in central Europe) was quite inspirational. The museum settles for lots of multimedia, old videos and documents, objects, maps, photographs and drawings and a lot more. Tldr make the teaching appealing to students by utilizing modern media, storytelling and connecting dots in front of them (I swear the only two periods I'm somewhat interested in are WWII in Poland and Renaissance in Italy because I am equipped with enough data to connect facts, events and characters) and they'll wanna learn more even in their free time.

Lmao sameeee 💀

The media swapped the colors in 1984, because of the phrase " better dead than red", which was a reference to living under communism. The Democrat color was red. The Democratic Party was also the more leftist party. So, they made red the republican color.

@@davidnichols6971 these maps represent both parties with the same colours that were used to, although you're correct about the historical flip flopping of party colours

They flipped the colors because of the phrase. There was NO OTHER REASON to flip the colors. That's a FACT. I'M NOT 10 YEARS OLD. I WAS HERE, AND VOTING.

@@davidnichols6971 read my comment again, slowly

I've read it 5 times. You're not telling me anything I don't already know.

LMAO ikr I was thinking the same thing, literally called Trump a white supremacist out right, then tried to make us look bad for getting rid of saying "we only wanted the black votes"...

@limerency5834 what evidence?? Still trying to find it on the view or CNN

@@raw7504 If its racist to advocate for the best interests for white people in a time were whites are being demonized so be it. If blacks dropped there inferiority complex maybe there communities wouldn't be so poor.

​@anthonyhall4427 turn off Fox news, and you might learn something

@@judaskatoby don't watch the news, smart ass

Hopefully we never do again. Notice how they were always in or around times of war

@@tyeklund7221 times in war is the only time the states are United sadly

@@Steve-zc9ht Unless it's a civil war.

@@tyeklund7221 Yeah but it would be nice for it to happen again with out a war

Back when people voted due to policies and not because his party has a color that I like

1=1

Alaska never changed

I live in Florida and i am very mad at it because my county screwed us over

I live in florida and I'm still mad lmao, at least joe biden still won

Dylan Bodiford ikr I’m canadian but I’m sick of our news covering nothing but trump. I saw a meme that summed it up perfectly. Like I would’ve caged all the Canada geese and let them loose on you guys. Like a Vietnam style carpet bombing to get you all in line.

True

"Yeah the Republicans ended slavery but theyre still racist" Wtf

@@chimalez2924 dude you could say that to literally every society ever.

@@chimalez2924 you saw the same maps as i did, these racists you talked about voted democrat for most of american history

@@docxy7331 yes. It’s still bad and doesn’t excuse them just because others did too.

Cha Cha real smooth

criss cross

In reality it's "Slide to the right" "Slide to the right" "Slide to the right" ...you get the point

@@robrot404 since there are hardly any left candidates other than Bernie.

@@robrot404left left right left 🧐

Lol

This isn't a vox video‽

@@LRAStartFox somehow, it isn’t.

They didn't get in an insult to trump in the first 30 sec.

Wait What?

D

there are no pictures :(

When I look at this. It's all true.

Based

George Washington was a federalist in the same way that your friend, who swears he’s an independent even though he’s only ever voted for republicans and only ever sides with republicans, is a republican. They might not like to say it, but they are.

@@TheOhrenberger tbh who can even relate to democrats these days, theyve went so far down the rabbit hole of 'wokeness' that they straight up are a caricture in a political cartoon. they are the personification of an angry mob

@@SL4US I don't see how that's even remotely relevant to what I said.

@@SL4US Democrats are the majority of this country. That's why democrats have won almost every popular vote in the last 30 years

365 is a landslide post 2000

Reagan only won 51% of the popular vote compared to Obama’s 54%. But other than that you are correct, according to the electoral college system Reagan won in a landslide

Reagan actually won 58% to Mondale’s 40% during his reelection

Reagan actually won 58% of the popular vote to Mondale’s 40%.

@@Yiantron If Obama wasn’t black he would have won 60% of the popular vote just like FDR did after the Great Depression. The Great Recession of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in a century.

No need to imagine. That's exactly what happened in 2016.

d

That is why people want Biden, to be an anti-trump alternative. If there were more majoritarian parties. Nobody would vote for Joe

You need to have two parties, it's how politics works, and theres a reason. Imagine an election with three (major) candidates. Party A gets 40% of the votes, and Party B and C each get 30% of the votes. Who wins? Party had the largest amount of voters, but 60% of the voters preferred a different candidate, and voted against the winner. The way politics works in modern day democracies isn't actually the best/most efficient way, that is technically ranked lists with 5+ candidates, where you rank them, but that system is far more complicated and by now, would be far too difficult to implement, as people are just used to the current system. Edit: I'd like to explain myself further, since about 40 people replied to this. Firstly, I think it's extremely unlikely that any different (aka better) form of voting is implemented in the United States, at least in the next 50 years, because whichever side pushes for it, it will be hated by the other. Other countries have a much better system, like Germany, Brazil, Australia, etc and they all work slightly differently, but are better because the people don't vote on negative cohesion. (This is when people vote for a person even though they dislike them because they dislike them less than the alternative). If anyone reading this is interested in discovering the better forms of voting, scroll down these comments or I highly recommend the videos of CGPGrey, he uses the example of an "Animal Kingdom" and explains the different forms and their advantages/disadvantages, such as ranked/preferential voting, coalitions between parties, etc.

@@asteractor2348 In Australia we have preferential voting, this helps resolve the problem that you discussed. You just need to educate Americans on how it works.

No. America is WAY more divided than it was back then. Why? The simple fact that there's far more divisive topics for America to be divided over! Back then it was just slavery. Off the top of my head I can think of the division between homosexuals and heterosexuals, men-hating feminists and women-hating MGTOWs, those who believe in binary genders and those who believe in the ever increasing gender spectrum, the 1619 group vs the 1776 group, the pro-life group and the pro-choice group, "vaxxers" and "anti-vaxxers", those who support CRT and those who want it gone, religious evangelicals and atheists. If I tried, I could come up with another list that long. Yes, the mid 1860's ARE a joke compared to what America has socially devolved into.

@@angelus_solus this is true. I just hope we don’t go to civil war

@@angelus_solus I like how your comment states what were divided over while remaining neutral without extra adjectives and commentary.

@@juanfelipe8484 Civil war has already started...it's just with words right now.

@@Hybred I presented it that way because I do my best to remain politically neutral. I support no political party and do what I can to not support any side of the issues that divide our society, because it's none of my business. Sadly though, it will come to a point that those who refuse to take a side will be hated by both sides equally and be branded as traitors or cowards...just like how Jehovah's Witnesses were viewed during the first and second great war in their respective countries. It is unavoidable.

I know right. There are so many just plain false and misrepresented statements in here it's not even funny. That lady at 3:05. What a complete misrepresentation of what the Republican party stood for and what they wanted to accomplish. They were the vehement anti-slavery party by the time of Lincoln. Not panderers of votes. And 10:05 Again a massive misrepresentation of the Democrat party of the time. Who were the party of the racist south. That wasn't a fight between "racist whites" and Democrats. It was a fight within the Democrat party. And the lie that the racist white democrats threw their support behind Republicans has been proven false so many times it's not even funny. Those are just a few to start!

srsly I thought I was the only one who noticed.

​@@brianlevine249 True words have never been truly spoken, especially about that first clip. Like did they study history at all? Sure some could argue that during the start of the war, the main goal of the Republican party was to reunite the country as one. Which is OBVIOUSLY hat you should be thinking when your country splits into half. But they were 100% back on the lets try to fix slavery train. At least the video didn't misrepresent the founding fathers too much. I HATE it when videos talk so downly on the founding fathers for owning slaves. And they forget to mention that the time period was different and because of that some people saw slavery as just a normal thing. I mean think about all the stuff that we're thinking right now that people 300 years from now would think is so wrong, but we don't. And even though it was a different time, the founding fathers were some of the first people to have conflicting thoughts on the matter. With George Washington getting rid of his slaves after his wife died. And Thomas Jefferson originally abolitioned slavery in the original constitution I think is what it was, but knew that the southern states would NEVER join the country if they did, and they couldn't risk that at the time because of how big their economic troubles were. So he took it out of the draft, and honestly saved America, even if we had to fight a war a hundred years later Sorry for going on a founding fathers tangent, I just HATE it so much when people misrepresent them lol

What did you think most of America’s history is about? Lol

That's all poly sci majors think about. They're hacks.

@@dragonoffire5705not that god do you people really think this it really shows that you don’t know history read a book

@@The_king567For one, learn what a comma is. Second, people primarily vote based on economic concerns, not identity politics. Democrats want to change that because they suck at managing the economy, but it isn't working.

Or A red Massachusetts, Never thought I'd see that on a map.

@Farmlife Channelyt But they never swapped

@Farmlife Channelyt party switch was the biggest hoax ever

@@sanrasuzumaki942 it’s because red and blue was never so extreme. You’d actually have to decide whether you are red or blue.

@@rulas1122 'Party switch is the biggest hoax, but Democrats are liberals like Republicans used to be, and Republicans are conservatives lile Democrats used to be'.

Florida votes Republican in 2024: guys I had a reason

@@Steve-zc9ht the joke's going over my head, what?

@@itsohaya4096 oh I saw this tiktok where Florida was like I had a reason and biden California and the Democrats where like what reason LMAO 😂

@@itsohaya4096 but I feel like every year Florida is getting more and more Republican and in like 4 years they will have a red wall they will be a full Republican states if Cubans and Puerto Ricans keep moving there

@@Steve-zc9ht feel like it’s more Salvadorians than Puerto Ricans

exactly

It’s everywhere man

New drinking game: Take a shot every time they bring up African American voters

All politics is indoctrination

Exactly right. The bias against the GOP in this video is disgusting. Talking about Trump focusing on the white vote is such a lie. He got the highest non-white vote for any Republican since 1984. He literally built a new coalition of non white voters for the republican party. But don’t let facts get in the way of indoctrination

If a kid told you they were a kangaroo would you label them as a kangaroo?

@@johnvuillemot4805 if George Washington told you he was an independent would you label him as an independent?

@@LRJS1794 No. It's as if Trump called himself a Democrat. His actions beg to differ.

@@LRJS1794 With all due respect I think the point that my fellow commenters are making is that whilst Washington was certainly not registered to a party its intellectually a bit dishonest to act as though his independent party status reflected in his practiced politics. Washington was very much a Federalist in his practice primarily acting on the advisement of people like Federalist Alexander Hamilton and often finding himself in sometimes heated disagreement with Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson. It is true to be sure that Washington would not define himself as a Federalist due to his hatred of political parties but ultimately I'd argue his actions as president speak louder than words or party registry (or....lack thereof I suppose.)

@@AdwinLauYuTan funny thing is that he is a Democrat. He’s been a democrat his whole life, so some research on him. He’s hardly a republican 🤣

You do know if you just wanted to see the maps you can look them up on Wikipedia right? They give descriptions and facts of each election

@@westhoodqualzini7884 yes but i wanted a video of each so i didnt have to look for each one

Yeah, minus the biased talking and missinformation

@@YeetYeet-on9oh They're mostly describing history. How is that misinformation, again?

@@YeetYeet-on9oh where’s the misinformation though, all I’m seeing is facts lol

In what way?

P o l i t i c s

These were all facts

@@PW-le6cr There was a lot of opinion snuck in here, like saying the 2016 was driven by race.

@@PW-le6cr Says the person who didn't look it up. Reps got the same white turnout in 2020 as Romney did in 2016 but it was because of racism???? Yea right.. These were not facts

Arguably he was leaning towards the federalists

He was against political parties, but he differed a great amount to authority to Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists, and agreed with them on most if not all of the biggest policy issues of the time. So no, he was technically not affiliated and definitely would not have identified with the Federalists, but in terms of his policy, he was a Federalist.

@@mr.hamburger7281 said like someone who obviously hasn't read his farewell address

At least we know that we don’t really need Ohio and Florida to win the election.

@William G hm

@William G also, North Carolina is slowly drifting towards the Democrats. While 2008 was an outlier, due to the worst economic crisis for decades, the state has been edging ever closer these last 12 years. 2012 and 2016 had the Republicans win, 2020 was pretty close. The Dems are retaking the south, with a new coalition of suburban and urban voters, as well as the majority of the minority vote. And I do believe that once Texas goes blue, the Republicans won't stand much of a chance.

Not only that, he also lost Iowa, NC, Florida, and Vigo county in Indiana, which are all traditionally bellwethers

@William G The fact that Texas went blue at all, at any point in time seems like an indicator that the country’s political geography is changing. The country is starting to lean democrat in a time where things are more turbulent.

morbidsearch Women: Can I come?

Its probably because Grant had anti-Native policies and they would probably vote against him.

@@iris899 it’s Jackson not grant

@@ontop2324 Grant was also anti-native

Grant: Let's let all men vote in elections Natives: Agreed Grant: No not you

It was pretty difficult to watch.

bet they wouldn't have even mentioned the fact that the Progressive Party consisted of former Republican Party voters if it weren't for the fact that Theodore Roosevelt won 81 electoral votes as the Progressive Party nominee

This video is full of propaganda, glad others can see through the lies

Your wor- uhhhhhhhhhhhhh oml your wow

Nahhh more like Washington DC literally every election.

As a Minnesotan I can confirm this but we somehow act red all the time except Minneapolis of course

@@KBCards cool! Just a quick question, do you think George Floyd had an effect on how people voted this year

@@bigourney1810 i think the people that were strongly protesting wouldve voted blue either way tbh, lots of voting here just based on color if u get what i mean

I mean you're correct technically, but practically speaking he sided with the Federalists most of the time. Sort of like how Bernie is an independent but like. also practically a Democrat.

Don't forget about John Tyler. The Whigs kicked him out of the party in 1841 and he ended his term as an independent. Of course, he wasn't an independent for the same reason but still counts.

Bernie isn’t independent. He is so far left he can’t even identify as a Democrat.

@@serbianmonkeyclub1146 exactly why he is an independent

George Washington wanted no part of any political affiliation

They clearly wanted to make a video that would benefit off of the current election since everyone’s interested in elections right now

@@jasonle520 I believe they're saying they should've waited for the results of this election so they could've put Trump vs Biden's results in the video

@@baileylynn5562 well people wont be as interested in elections after this very contentious one passes

@@blew1t fair enough

people wouldn't search for a video like this in a week

Huh

Florida man Florida man Florida man

Damn it Florida Man

That state will be underwater due to climate change in 20 years we can only hope 🙌🏾

@@somerandomperson6936 Islands of the Maldives have already disappeared and the government is thinking of relocating.

nice one

he "won"

@@Eg_arwan what do you mean he “won”? he won fair and square and dont let a big orange man tell you otherwise

​@@Eg_arwan cope

@@Eg_arwan The Cheeto being lost, deal with it

Not all heroes wear capes

This video has a lot of inaccuracies...

@@sam555537especially the one girl basically saying that republicans are racist

1860 has blue ohio for some reason as well

Also for some reason Humphrey won florida

Yes, Wyoming is a joke.

@@darththeo It doesnt even exist

Wyoming is cool asf wyd mean

@@yaboidicey8782 I think it's the fact that Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote but weren't even mentioned.

@@killaben85 Colorado also did it in 1893, but I guess neither they nor Wyoming have enough electoral votes or vote blue enough to reinforce the video's biases

That's leftist media for you

I haven't got past the 1830s and I have already seen multiple falsehoods. They are purveying the revisionism that the Federalist and Whig parties were northern anti slavery parties. Federalist had a substantial base in the Carolinas and the Whigs were the dominant party among river based slave traders who wanted clays river infrastructure. Look at Bells counties in 1860, they are river and plantation counties.

@Isaiah Wood they actually are, you can tell if you look at the biased comments made towards the end of the video.

All you need to know that’s red is good and blue is bad

Wym , that’s why they said it cuz it happens every election

@@fernandorivas7145 Oh last election I was 10, so I didn’t know that. It just happened this time and everyone was mad at FL that’s why.

@@maryemelsayed8529 lmao 😂 ik I saw every democrat on tiktok crying and saying what was your reason Florida and someone else was like omg they voted Republican 2 times in a row just was like bruh it's not that serious

@@Steve-zc9ht i mean... the lgbtq community's right to get married, the future of america's climate, and prevention of further spread of covid is on the line here so i'm pretty sure it's incredibly serious

@@eyelafd Trump isn't against lgbtq marriage. Don't listen to everything the media tells you. In fact, the republican party is only getting more progressive on that topic from here on. Same with environmental policy eventually. They'll have to. Or risk losing votes once younger people get older.

FDR: Y E S

You forgot about trump too

@@kamikazefilmproductions theyre referring to landslide wins. trump didnt win in a landslide in 2016, obviously didnt win in 2020 overall

Roosevelt: H E L L Y E A H

@@fromtimesinkingdoms9144 true, but they cheated in the 2020 elections but if u say

I've been growing ever more libertarian, the whole idea of big government just seems wrong, the people need more power

@@WhisperXK btw, don't ever let anyone shame you into not voting 3rd-party; the government's national archives website explains that popular votes are actually voting for candidates' _preferred electors,_ so the whole (for example) "Jill Stein is siphoning voters away from Biden" rhetoric is total BS

Well when a dem took us through ww2 alot if people would carry that on their shoulders. Not to mention most of the US population was unified back then

So basically modern day democrats are old school republicans. The racists (modern day republicans) wanted slavery

The black vote switched dramatically from Republican to Democrat because of Roosevelt's New Deal policies giving entitlements . In others words, people voted themselves money by voting Democrat . THAT'S when and how the Democratic party secured the black vote.

@@WhisperXKyeah my great grandparents that were from the Great Depression voted democrat until they died, they said they first started voting dem in the 40’s and didn’t stop until they died

Do you also believe it switched heavily in the 70s?

Woohoo!

gonna be funny to see this deleted IF the Amy Coney Barrett stuff turns a court ruling victory to Trump :P

@@natelarson1273 what's really funny is that you think the Supreme Court decides the election

@@jaylinkw whats really funny is you assume you know what I'm thinking.

@@natelarson1273 dude what?? That's just how your comment sounded. You're obviously a Trump voter, ofc I don't know what you're thinking. 😂😂

lmao

Why do they always do that

POG

copy and paste

@@ontop2324 it subliminally makes him feel like a better person

its american history what do you expect

@@candyking9254 i didn’t watch this video for a history lesson. i watched it for an informative view on how states voted, not about racial incentives, especially in the modern examples.

@@devakari8347 and what are they informing you about? what was happening at the time. thats history.

@@candyking9254 Yes but it is specifically race oriented. very few examples were used where it wasn’t racial and occurred to current events. Even those events that were shown, were not discussed in half the same amount of detail. ex: WWI, WWII and Vietnam

@@candyking9254 the video is full of misinformation

i learned at the time they were called democrats lol

@@Bepster927 yes they are called democrats, the “jeffersonian republicans” essentially have leftist ideas. and back then they were extremely racist to the point where they wanted to create their own country to keep slaves but here we are now lol

@@Bepster927 "Democratic Party" was only used for it pejoratively at the time

“Revisionist historians”

@@KainWT It's just a nickname to avoid confusion with the modern GOP

Lol

I see you are a man of culture.

Oversimplified

“they only won because I lost, that’s not a winner”

yay oversimplified

The two parties themselves have factions within them and are far from uniform.

2 party system is getting worse by the minute. seems too late but we need a RR/JFK type candidate to fix this. grab the hearts of the american ppl and bring us tg

He was a Federalist but refused to identify with a party because he thought it would divide the nation. *He was right*

He refused to identify with the party until after his presidency, although he was a supporter. Ultimately, he became a symbol of the Federalists.

Woah

Same btw

I guess some people are too dumb to have looked up: US PRESIDENTS. Too complicated?

I had to remember every president. It is a song like the ABCs.

We memorize the list to “Yankee Doodle”

It's totally ridiculous. All the intelligentsia puppets here spinning their snide opinions as facts and doubling down on Big Lies like the Southern Strategy and the "Trump won on racism" narrative. And the media wonders why only 15% of Americans have any amount of significant trust in them.

Ok, care to elaborate on how?

@@BlackBanditXX no :D

@@BlackBanditXX Because the whole video basically said if you vote for the right you are racist which is factually historically untrue. It is so tiring to be called a racist because of the policies you vote on when it couldn't be further from the truth.

@@DadJokesAllDayLong miss the fact they say rebulicans were for black rights and all that? And democrats were for salvery? But yes the right is racist you watched like 5 minutes of a video it seems congrats.

@@andrewharbison720 I watched the entire video but clearly you didn't. Before you kick up dirt you should probably actually listen to what they said. Here, let me help you out, buddy. 13:20 - "And instead what Trump realized was 'maybe I could double down on the racially resentful white people who in each election are voting more and more Republican' ". (AKA people were mad a black man was elected and he wanted to capitalize) 13:45 - "Very similar to the Voting Rights act itself, the election of Obama created a significant backlash. I mean, the American history is defined to some degree by Civil Rights movement forward, backlash white supremacy back." (AKA, the racists were mad that Obama was elected and were going to fight back) 14:18 - "I don't know if Trump is a political genius or not, but he intuited something, that you actually could squeeze another presidential victory or two out of racially disaffected white electorate." (AKA Trump knew racist white people would vote for him)

Yes it's a joke

doesn’t matter. We’re not a swing state anymore, been gerrymandered away to the point where our state will always go republican

@@zcalhoun3638 Facts

@@zcalhoun3638 we literally went Democrat in 2008 and 2012

69th like

What about it.

@@doc3353 republicans branded biden as a socialist to scare a hispanic vote

"forgot"

@The Echoler Places like Wallmart or McDonald will employ the same amount of people, the only difference being they will be payed 15$/h instead of 9$/h

Actually, at least concerning foreign policy, I think that's the second worst right after Trump's presidency.

​@@andrashorvath4860As bad as Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy was his domestic policy has proven even more catastrophic. The creation of the IRS, the implementation of federal income tax and the privatization of the Federal Reserve were all byproducts of his presidency, just to name a few. Love Trump or hate him, I don't believe he, nor any other president, erected a volume of policies and legislation that will and have adversely effected ordinary Americans to such an extent as those of Woodrow Wilson.

@@andrashorvath4860 you lot are both forgetting the obvious example, Andrew Jackson and his trail of tears

​​@@andrashorvath4860foreign policies? Like visiting North Korea and not starting a war for the first administration in years? Or the three wars already happening with his heir Joe?

Lmao

POG

bruh someone dcopied ur comment

Sadly he was one of the worst presidents in history, it's not his race, it's his policies.(Slowest economic rebuild since the great depression and his VP is about to be in office yikes?

@@r6el1tebl1tz2 but Trump is bad too...

The "Whig Party" actually comes from Great Britain, where they opposed royal authority and supported the expansion of parliamentary power. In the United States, it came to entail support of the revolution, independence and liberal policies.

@@otectus2187 r/whoosh

@@richardsainz4762 Df is r/? Just say woooosh bud

@@gloobs4913 r/ stands for reddit... [/]

@@WindowsXPMapping1 Oh but I thought this was just UKposts Lol..

I don’t think so, if we abolish the electoral college Texas and California are dictating the elections. It gives every state a voice to vote.

@@FRSTBYTESyearsago yeah that makes sense from an American point of view. But I'm from Europe and we simply count the amount of votes from every person. Ignoring the "states" (which we kinda have too). That way every voice would be heard and you could even install minority representation with more votes for different parties, like the green or libertarian party. I just think it'd make more sense, but I get where you're coming from and my view might just be very European.

Just informed myself a bit more about that topic, and yes. The electoral vote is largely unfair, giving certain people in swing states up to 51% more influence then others. Where I come from we just count the popular vote. Much easier, much more accurate and above all: more democratic and free.

ur not from America we dont care about or need ur input you don’t know what ur talking about

@@johnwilkers2718 you don't now what you're talking about

Well, true but it is still polarized as all hell

maybe they mean civil war levels.

Despite what some people say I doubt that civil war could happen now without making one side feel like their being deprived of their basic human rights.

I mean they're not wrong, because the south seceded from the Union, no longer being American states, and the end of the civil war is what brought the south back.

I don’t think we’re that polarized. I think we can all agree that we dislike both candidates to a certain extent...excluding the louder diehard fans of Trump. Besides, this election showed that we agree more than we disagree, especially on controversial policies such as the legalization of marijuana. Some Republican states like Montana and South Dakota legalized marijuana.

I’d vote for you. I’m down for a dictatorship at this point.

yes supreme leader

@@lordvader6172 please move to Korea let's see if you say the same thing

@@budomk9299 Its a joke

@@lordvader6172 Team Leninism! 🇷🇺

There are multiple historical things that are either wrong or misleading in this video.. one of them that I think more people caught that they gave Washington to a party when he never really was in any- and was in fact against parties.

I was going to say the same thing, as well as another point already made in that there are a number of inaccuracies with this video

Yes, I noticed they were biased towards the democratic side of things. As an educational channel, they shouldn't bias things the way they did

Democrats are evil they cant help but be biased they cant comprehend anything that is different from their prejudged biases.

@@lucifernazaedi Washington was a federalist in his stances.

I mean, the state did correctly pick 13 presidential elections in a row. And has correctly picked the right president 35/40 times. Ohio has been correct 87.5% of the time. That's more than any other state and honestly hella impressive. If Trump's response to the pandemic wasn't so poor, and if he stayed off social media, he would have won re-election. Biden BARELY beat him out in states that mattered AND Trump actually got more votes then he did in 2016. Ohio may not have got it right this time but the state wasn't wrong for picking Trump. The 2020 election was about one thing, how much does the American public like or dislike Trump. Trump nearly won a 2nd term. Tells you everything you need to know.

​@@TheMissingLink2 That's an interesting way of looking at it, saying that he nearly won a second term. I suppose there is some truth there; 2020 wasn't a landslide. On the other hand, 21 past presidents did actually win their reelection bid, while only 4 had failed (now 5). Trump lost 2020 by nearly the same electoral margin he won with 4 years prior, and had more than doubled his popular vote margin deficit. In other words, Hillary was closer to winning in 2016 than Trump was to winning in 2020.

Eh, Ohio got it right in 2020. But ya know… pallets full of ballots changed things a bit

@@RealHotPiss That's a nice fantasy

@@aaronmills3922 we’re living in a fantasy

true. Ulysses S Grant's opponent lost anyway

So nobody conceded the race?

But we get spoon fed everything.. Pfft

Thank the democrats for that

That is disgraceful!

Democrats

It doesn't matter if democrats or Republicans its the idea of it took longer then anyone else's rights AND it is not spoken about in the textbooks ever.

For real dude literally saved America

He also literally hunted Native Americans like animals.

Doubt.

@@2ragic i wish it weren't so, Michigan and Wisconsin were critical and they cheat trump from them. And they won't call the obvious of nc ga and pa and alaska

@@hydrodio8935 I think it is going to come down to Nevada, which is fairly even split at the moment. I think it could go either way.

@@hydrodio8935 GA and PA are now almost for Biden... That didn't age well at all...

@@shrayesraman5192 I was just about to say, PA is certainly moving blue and GA is so close

We are a Republic, not a pure democracy. The electoral college gives small states and states with low population density a significant voice in national elections. I do not want this country to be run by a handful of states, either blue or red. Everyone's interests matter. Why would states accept elections if they feel like their vote does not matter? That is a recipe for division.

ya majoritarianism DNE democracy, under a lot of definitions

@@sarahtaylor4264 "I do not want this country to be run by a handful of states" then you do not want a Republic a direct democracy is the only way to make sure that no one side has too much power

@@MrElionor The Constitution requires a Republic, which means we vote for people to make decisions their constituents' behalf. Sounds like it meets the definition of a Republic. More specifically, we are a Federal Republic that uses democratic processes. As a voluntary union of states, each state is entitled to meaningful (not perfectly proportional) representation for national affairs. Large states still have more power than small states, but not enough to unilateraly override them. The founding fathers feared what they called tyranny of the mob. It meant that the majority of people would have absolute power over a minority. The House is allotted by population to reflect the majority's interests accurately. The Senate allots two per state so that the minority can then protect their own interests if they strongly disagree with federal legislation. If the majority of Senators approve, then the minority is at least heard. The President is a national issue, so it makes sense to find a medium ground between population and proportional representation. The original 2/3 to pass laws was meant to do that and force political parties to work together. Now it is 51% and most voting is done straight along party lines. I don't see how it is true democracy for each side of the isle to act based on party loyalty rather than the interests of most citizens. The founding fathers came up with a very intricate system of government that works. Let's consider a small example. Imagine there are 61 people in total from two groups. A has 31 while B and C have 15. Decisions are made on 51%. If everyone in A votes yes while everyone in the other groups votes no or vice versa for the next 10 years or more all decisions are made A. If every group is nearly evenly split that B and C have no real power even though they are a good chunk of the population respectively. Now imagine they have to pick an inter-group leader. Each group gets a different number of votes based on population, but allots those points based on internal simple majority. A still has way more power to make decisions. It would be even worse if the disparity was larger. Even if both B and C voted for the opposite person it wouldn't matter. I would expect resentment to build if B and C's interests continue to be ignored. Imagine that among hundreds of thousands to millions of people. No group should get want they want 99%+ of the time. Another danger of pure democracy is abuse of power. Group A could pass laws that benefit them but hurt Group B and/or C without any consequences. A lack of legal protection and majority rule allowed for things like slavery, Jim Crow, and the Holocaust. It can be a dangerous thing. That is why checks and balances, as well as republicanism, define our government. It makes abuse more difficult. Finally, it is not practical to run a country on pure democracy. It would be a beauracratic nightmare and little would get done. We are too complex and large for it on a national level. Pure democracy is actually extremely undemocratic in practice. It gives full power to the majority (not always a good thing) and crushes the voices of the minority, which could theoretically be as high as 49%. You are stripping entire states and minority interests of fair representation, which is the means to political power. That results in a dictatorship of the majority. I 100% believe the electoral college is important to keeping us united. Even though part of me would love for a couple of big, highly populated states to control the outcome of elections and hold the legislature If find the idea of that actually happening abhorent. It is a violation of democratic principles and respect for other members of the republic. I hope you are not an opportunist hiding behind pure democracy as a shield to push your own agenda and silence the group of people who oppose it. That is not morally acceptable. I would encourage you to look into the Federalist Papers. It examines why the founding fathers made their decisions. Also, please do some research about real examples of and experiments with pure democracy. It typically doesn't work out well. I know I have likely not changed your mind, but I hope I this was a decent explanation of an opposing viewpoint. This stuff matters because it affects everyone in this country. I do want democracy and the best way for us to acheive it is with republicanism that balances majority and minority interests.

lol you gotta also take into consideration how big the USA is compared to countries in Europe. Like each state itself is almost the same size as a country in Europe so to base things off popular vote just wouldn't work. Maybe if we all lived in California, then yeah sure. Most votes wins

my name is grant

That’s an L

@@dewyyy1114 any askers? 👀

@☯ Yo, it's a Froggieee Onimations ☯ ✓ he won 19 million votes my man, yes he’s a real third party lol

@@josephpolizzi_5759 He was a loser

They did. Teddy and his Bull Moose Party. Teddy got a full 27% of the vote. Perot got almost 9%. Teddy beat the actual Democratic nominee. He also was more progressive than the Democrats

They'll mention the 4 guys that ran when Quincy Adams was elected but not Perot. They don't want to make Bills victory look bad. They called Obama's win a landslide and made sure to point out that Bush and Trump lost the popular vote. Meanwhile they breezed through the Reagan/Bush wins not mentioning Reagan to be the last Republican to win both New York and California in the biggest landslide election of our history.

​@@anthonytejada181Perot got 9% in 1996 while he got 19% in 1992 and was Second Place in Maine

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Except the middle is a little blue this time

sums up literally every election after Reagan

They definitely need to fix this so as to not confuse people who can't research for themselves. :)

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Ohio must really hate catholic Democratic candidates

lmaooooo true!

@@wilderac2250 It's very Republican- leaning as of late.

Lawl biden didnt win ;)

@@YaboitheCadian shut up you Qcumber

You is Parapa the Rapper?

be glad that you have the rights now

Wrong. The votes are still being counted... Recounts, lawsuits, etc,

@Cakez Swanz wdym? There's videos of biden supporters filling out multiple ballots and other forms of cheating

@@kaynines5996 what do you mean Ohio went for Bush

Fun fact, JFK won the presidency and lost Ohio. I wonder what will happen to Biden...

@@reinbeers5322 yeah fdr died in the term he lost ohio same with JFK

LOL

Trump. Winding up. UKS. And. We keep doing that stuff but it will help. Casrin. Limo

Joe Biden hasn’t won. 2020 ain’t done preparing its speech

The press has only called a race wrong once, and that was when one state decided it and that state had a 500 vote difference. Biden has won, just because Trump tweets about baseless fraud 100 times doesn't make it true.

@@surge7372 beautiful

@@surge7372 the election isn't over until all the legal lawsuits come to an end

@@surge7372 Voter fraud is very real, and even if you have any doubt of that, to call it baseless is just straight up foolish.

Not even close

Especially true in 2000

@Ms. Anthrope who cares what words we use?

I think it was Horace Greeley a Liberal Republican that died.

i didnt know that. seemed like this video was just anti trump which is silly. won by a lot against hillary and got screwed with covid. that said hes a PIA. hope we find a candidate to stop the hate here

@@MrILovestrawberries true. I think trump was doing well until covid hit. It went downhill very quickly. Now i dont like trump but compared to Hillary, trump was better. Hillary did little to none campaigning in the rust belt and her being part of the establishment, the 32,000 emails when she was secretary of state, his husband cheating on her etc. She and her supporters thought that they won when the campaign began. I do agree with you; This video leans to the Democrats.