{"id":23895,"date":"2020-06-29T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23895"},"modified":"2020-06-29T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:29:48","slug":"the-trouble-with-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23895","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Trouble with the Electoral College\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7wC42HgLA4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This map from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cgpgrey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cgpgrey<\/a> (video here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eY3LL4SMMi\">https:\/\/t.co\/eY3LL4SMMi<\/a>) shows that winning 50.1% of each red state would be enough to become president. That means with only 22% of total US votes you could win an election. Broken system much? Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JyOi6JZGq0\">https:\/\/t.co\/JyOi6JZGq0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dB0e5Bq34q\">pic.twitter.com\/dB0e5Bq34q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simongerman600\/status\/1277700625694887942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politique-americaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}