How Swing States Control The US Elections
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- Swing states are the focus of presidential campaigns thanks to the electoral college system, but the power they hold in US elections can leave others behind.
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How Swing States Control The US Elections
Texas hasn’t switched in so long and it’s surprising that it’s now slowly starting to be considered a swing state
*Cough* immi *cough* gration
@@argus4650 actually, it's more correlated with increase education in Texas now a days. It's the silicon valley outside of Cali.
@@argus4650 there’s a case for that, but in fact there’s been a decrease in foreign immigration to Texas from MX for the past couple of yrs if that’s what you are referring to. It’s more due to the effect of national migration of US citizens relocating to Texas for jobs, land, etc. it’s just crazy how it is edging Texas to be a swing state.
@@WeatherManToBe I assume that's a part of it but I think we've all seen how the border districts vote.
@@gabrielwang4321
Oh dammit I don't want to see the lone star state become another California. What'll be next Tennessee or Florida.
Woah mama this system is broken.
@Coach Dusky -A runoff system or an instant-runoff system for Presidential Elections.
-Elections held on Saturdays, not Tuesdays.
-Election Day is a National Holiday, so people don’t have to choose between work to provide for their families and exercising their right to vote.
-Proportional Representation or half-proportional/half-constituency representation in Congress.
-Ranked-Choice Voting for constituencies.
-Ranked-Choice Voting or runoff elections for the senate.
-Grant statehood to Territories that want to become states.
-If we MUST keep the Electoral College then get rid of winner-take-all. The candidates get a number of electoral votes in a state that is proportional to the percentage of the popular vote that they got in said state.
-Give Puerto Rico at least 2 Electoral Votes.
Guam, Northern Marianas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa at least 1 Electoral Vote Each.
-Grant D.C Statehood if that’s what its people want. If not, then exempt them from paying Federal Income Tax, because that’s Taxation Without Representation.
-Allow the Representatives from the Territories to have a vote in the House.
-Grant the People of American Samoa 🇦🇸 U.S. Citizenship, because they don’t have it for literally no reason.
There’s so much that can be done to make this system better and fairer.
The people in power just won’t do it because they benefit from the system being broken.
@@siononalundula1699 Best Comment Ever (BCE) of March 2022 (even though its published a year ago)
@@siononalundula1699 very good comment
Imagine living in a safe state where the party that's dominant is not your party.
man that must suck
source: me
Wisconsin's technically a flip state but the state legislature is so gerrymandered that Republicans hold over 60% of the seats despite getting less than half the votes. yaay. . .
Maryland Republican here I can confirm that it sucks although we have a republican governor which is nice
@@matthewscott9432 the weird thing about Maryland Republicans, MOST of them are MODERATES. Like Logan Hogan or Larry Harry (R), Governor of Maryland. Compared to Midwest or Southern Republicans, Northeastern Republicans are definitely moderates, which is kinda shocking because west coast republicans aren't as moderate even though Northeastern Republicans are located mostly on Safe Blue States just like the West Coast Republicans.
@@matthewscott9432 not anymore
in Brazil our swing state which is Minas Gerais. since 1950, whoever wins the elections there also wins in the country. amazonas, rio de janeiro and rio grande do sul were also considered swing states, but recently the last two have moved a lot to the right, like florida.
Imagine watching a video like this and then still defending the electoral college
BuT wE'rE a RePuBLiC
Texas last time it went Blue was in 1976 for Carter, I guess this video was talking about margin of errors
Nope, its just talking about how close the margin is in Texas, that's the only thing that makes Texas labeled as a 'Swing State'
Very good video, nice work!
New York will never switch wtf
Fs in the chat for Nebraska and Maine in the thumbnail.
Nice video. Now I can understand how the system works in USA 🇺🇸. I live in EU 🇪🇺.
@@Waffle17 it can happen in the UK too as our system is on one seat per constituency though I guess its more balanced than the US's way of doing things.
Wow this is very interesting.
As a Texan, I love seeing us listed as a swing state
We been a red state since 1980 so this is cap
By definition of swing state as they described in the video, then yes Texas has turned into swing state.
@Coach Dusky For this election, yes it will go red. But I'm worried that more and more liberals are moving into these red states, infesting it with their liberal ideals. They run away from places like Cali only to vote for the same Democratic policies in red states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida. I fear that the next election and on Texas going red won't be so easy...
@Coach Dusky Let Texas voters choose it's fate, Texans are Texans and telling Texans that their not Texans because they vote for Dems is just very ignorant
@Coach Dusky Trump barely, I mean barely squeaked out Texas.
me : wait it's a game all along?
us gov : always has been
Won’t the electoral map be redrawn again this year?
Whos here after Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Virginia and Colorado arent swing states anymore
The last line though
DC is truely blue, voted democrat every election since it got the 3 votes
After 2020 census reappointment
Florida will be a very import State having 31 electoral votes
California is so blue though
eh yeah it’s mostly blue but there’s tons of red counties more in the valley area where the food is grown but there’s definitely the quiet ones in the cities I’m in Bay Area and like 99% of ppl speaking out are for Biden
Yeah, because conservative policy does not necessarily favour tech employees and artists. Moreover, California's industries are heavily dependent on immigration.
It's blue, but I think Ronald Reagan won it if I am not mistaken. So it can swing even if rarely.
@@ToothlesstheNightFury510 yeah because the people in the Bay Area view Biden as a republicans
Rip
0:37 I find it strange when someone say TEXAS as a swing state...last time it was democratic was back in 1992.
No in 1976
*1976
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I'll never understand why the USA uses an electoral college to vote for a president. They represent the whole country, so the person who the whole country votes for, should win.
What's hard to understand? State A doesn't represent State B and State B doesn't represent State C. Most populated state doesn't represent the less populated state. It's for that reason the electoral vote is use in the US.
@Arc Red So you're saying because you're born in the countryside your vote is more important than theirs?
@@numbuh98 That's exactly the point I am making, the president is meant to represent all states, which means all states should have equal voting representation. The only way to do this is by using popular vote. People vote, not land. I live in a country which has states but when we vote for our president we dont give disproportionate representation to certain states. Its whoever's gets the most votes in the whole country.
Ronan Kelleher the US is not a democracy bro.
@Arc Red Maybe that's the reason the USA is so divided. If you voted using the popular vote they wouldn't be trying to pander to one side of your population. They would have to be fair and equal to both sides.
Nebraska state wide if you take out just winning districts has been a solid Red State for over 40 years, last Democrat to win Nebraska was LBJ in 1964, yeah Obama won a district but LBJ was the last Democrat to win it as a whole and the last time Minnesota went Red was 1972 it should be Blue on the begging map as well
1820 Electoral College > Present Electoral College
lovely vid.
Electoral College gotta go.
New York and Massechussetts have consistently voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate the last 4 decades. How does that make them swing states???
POV: u came here after u saw Texas as a swing state
MI for Trump!
Pennsylvania will be the Tipping Point State of 2020
Not really. Trump can lose PA and still win is he gets one rust belt state
guess who was right
@@strawberryinthetropics yaaa.. pretty much nailed it
I dont think Minnesota is a swing state tho
Trump almost won it in 2016
@@bendsomemetal ohh yeahh youre right😅 all I knew was theyve been blue since like 1976. I didnt know it was close in 2016
@@johnlecraw6065 Yeah. It was the only state that did not vote for Reagan in his 1984 landslide victory
In the reality Minnesota is not so blue as you think, in 2016 Hillary won the state with 46% of the votes and trump stay with 45% and the other 4% is for independent candidates.
That’s true at the end in reality no Truly Red or Blue State every state has went Red at least once or more and every state has went blue once or more times in History
DC has never gone red.
@@sigmaballsnetwork Not a state
Come on Texas
COME ON YALLL!!💪🔥
@@jackimoon8284 Texas is redder than a stop sign
@@southerncyborg5387 I don’t know what purple stop sign you are looking at; but here in Texas stop signs are red.
@@southerncyborg5387 LOVE that you have blue stop signs where you’re from! I’m jealous 👏
Bookmarking this. See you November 3rd
They should change the system. Each should just be given 1 point no matter the population and that should be the basis whoever wins. Coz if its by popular vote states with smaller population are at a disadvantage
florida supported trump..for sure.
TRUMP
2020
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TEXAS FOR BIDEN!! I mean both parties suck rn but it’s better than racist trump. Here comes the trump supporters 🤣
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Really why?
@@bisheshshakya1873 why not?
Darth Dogoz cause he lost lol
Because of our stupid electoral college, my vote matters way more than most of the country bc I live in Wisconsin. This needs to change
First
third lol
President Trump 2020 🇺🇸
kek Nope!
trump: one term twice impeached
biden: vice president & president
Winner take all isn't an Electoral College rule, it's a rule that most states (all but two, as the video itself points out) have individually put in place. So don't "thank" the EC (or the US Constitution) for that. Thank your own state, and if you don't like it, take it up with them. Also, no one state, all by itself, has ever handed a person the Presidency. That's like saying if I win an election by ten votes, that those ten voters as a group single-handedly got me elected and no other votes other than those ten mattered. Which is ridiculous. Also, while it's true that the way things work now, a Presidential candidate could ignore all states except the largest 11 in order to get the electoral votes needed, for a variety of other reasons (also made obvious in the video itself), the candidates really must pay attention to all states, though admittedly they can spend fewer resources in states they think they'll definitely win and more resources in competitive states. It doesn't work perfectly because of flaws in state implementation, but it does provide an incentive for Presidential candidates to pay at least some level of attention to every state on the map, rather than just a fraction of higher-population states. Especially today, when a candidate doesn't have to visit your state for you to know what they're about, and living in a swing state mostly just means that you're annoyed by constant robo-calls... the notion that the current system gives some states "too much influence" is greatly exaggerated in this poorly put together video. And none of the problems with the system lie with the EC, but, rather, with how states have decided to select electors, so, again, if people don't like it, they should take it up with their states rather than trashing the EC.
Not in germany. here the partys have coalitions with eachother to govern and to do compromises.
Seeing trumps picture makes me sick
Joe Biden 2020 🙏🏼🙌💪
Trump 2020
kek Nope!
Nope what? He’s still gonna be the President ya know right?
@@TEETIMEE Hey comment back here on January 20 when Biden is sworn in. The vote is already confirmed how long are you planning on holding onto your delusion?
@@hiimjustin8826 where do you think it’s confirmed?
@@TEETIMEE Oh my bad, you're right. Lots of states of certified but not enough to put Biden over the hill. Still, Trump would have to win court cases in 3 of the biggest states AND would have to have decisions that would change the vote counts enough to be in the lead. The courts don't "decide" elections. They just settle disputes on the process. So all of that, don't you think that's kind of a long shot? I mean 99% likely Biden will be president on Jan. 20
Anyways, #Trump2020 ✌️
Except not really lol
TRUMP 2020
kek Nope!