How Voters Decide: Crash Course Government and Politics #38
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- So today, Craig is going to try to get inside the heads of voters by discussing how voters make decisions. Now obviously, like all decision making, voter decisions are influenced by a multitude of factors, but the three we are going to focus on today (and the three political scientists seem to think play the biggest role) are party loyalty, the issues involved in an election, and candidate characteristics. Now this all might seem like common sense, and well it sort of is, but it's important to be aware of and take into account the factors that influence our decisions - especially when considering that many voters are not particularly well-informed.
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"Today I'm going to get inside the head of the American Voter.... and boy is it empty in here"
the stock footage of the dude laptopping in the pool at 4:49 is phenomenal
+Ben Weiner Nice footage, indeed.
4:47 I always do my political reasearch by the pool trying not to electrocute myself.
If it's not plugged into an outlet, it's a bit harder to electrocute yourself. Though, getting moist will still put a damper on that laptop's future reliability.
+Fiaca lol who doesnt?
Great episode. Great series!
I would never vote for someone who abuses eagles...
Wow.....
Is it abuse, or just a firm, no non-sense stance toward birds in general?
#YOUDECIDE!
Ok boomer
😆
Ryan Smith Ryan do ur homework it’s timmy
How Voters Decide:
they don't!
+Nobody This guy sees clearly. Corporate billionaires make ALL the decisions and just puppet politicians.
+G PCM Very true, private interests don't have America's interests which is by we're losing resources in job markets, education, the economy, and science at a linear rate. Big companies outsource jobs to people who are willing to work for small wages instead of people here in America because cheap labor is profitable. Then they open up stores and factories in the USA, but make sure their main headquarters are not actually in the USA so they can avoid high taxes or any tax at all while selling goods using consumerism and the materialistic ideology to sell goods at a high price in the USA which shrinks the middle and upper middle class because the money these big corporations steal do not go back into America's economy.
+Nobody for president!
Nobody will keep election promises!
Nobody will listen to your concerns!
Nobody will help the poor and unemployed!
Nobody cares!
If Nobody is elected, things will get better for Everybody. Nobody tells the truth.
+Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen good call
Adam Rose At this point, I'm sure anyone who truly desires real freedom from oppression will realize that America has changed greatly, since time times of our founding fathers. Special interest groups are taking over and are buying out freedom of speech and continuing to cheat the system and be above the law.
If we want true freedom, equality, justice, and happiness for all, then we the people either need to make a better government system and destroy the old one in the fires of revolution or escape the current one and form a new nation free from the techniques of mind control techniques like propaganda and media manipulation and little to no corruption in the new governmental infrastructure. This sounds crazy now, but anyone can see the government's corruption and manipulation of we the people's free will.
Presidential elections are not by we the people, they are funded by special interest groups and the elected are puppets.
Hahahaha... Because he was just so jovial! Gibbity gibbity!
Craig at his best.
Craig you are literally saving my entire poli sci class right now before our final during this pandemic
whose here 4 thier gov class due 2 social distancing
This is one of the best videos on government. Very funny. It made me think but also lol
One of the best Crash Course yet.
The color balance/scheme on this episode really looked terrific!
Also I was hoping that the 'flash-forward' of Craig punching the eagle would happen at the end of the video.
The only party loyalist I will throw my unquestioned support behind is Andrew WK
I like Craig.
If you're going to explore the Republican and Democratic parties could you also cover independents and why they would want to distance themselves from the party system? I'd love to see a researched and unbiased video on that. I am an independent and have my reasons... some of which are actually touched upon in this video, but I'd love to see a broader take on it, and maybe when effect, if any, we have on elections.
Are we just gonna sit here and forget the person that was wearing a suit and shorts at the pool.
Jesus Christ, only 30% of Americans have graduated from college? That's kind of a mind blowing fact. I guess I should no longer be surprised nor frustrated with the apparent vast amounts of ignorance I'm faced with every day online with regards to politics... sad.
Thank you Craig. I love you. ^_^
And you too I guess Stan. ^_^
Finally!
thank you
where can i find more info on the factors and how scientist discuss elections results?
I have to say I don't always know every candidate locally though I do make an effort before I vote. If I found I missed a race I will vote for my party's candidate as a fall back because I like the party positions and hope the candidate supports those positions as well.
How to vote in a shitty two party system:
You choose the one who is less shitty
Could you go over urban/rural divide.
Loving all these Crash Course videos ☺️🇵🇭
How voters decide. What's everyone else doing?! Oh, okay i'll do that too. Look I'm popular!
We don't decide... the electoral college does
+Ashton Lnu I think they're voters too. It's just that their votes count the highest.
+Ashton Lnu And the electoral college votes for who the people voted for almost every time. Faithless electors pretty much never happen.
+PitLord777 no actually, It's just the votes by the citizens tell the electoral college how to vote
Need crash course on Sociology. Kindly consider that.
Soooooo true!!!
+Mackjack89 Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue
*Dumbfuck that you are*
3:26 How dare you! I demand that be changed to a Mets hat at once!
#PrayForFrance
+Anıl Ertürk ouch too much edge
Prayer doesn't work.
millenniumdragn edge
+Kenny Zhang read the news, some isis members attacked paris
***** no shit it isn't funny.
anyone seen what's happened in Paris?
+Radamel Falcao It's such a sad thing
Yeah, it's horrible...
+Felipe Cyrineu I'm watching the news and they are saying 140 are dead, France are deploying 1,500 troops at the moment. A massacre. Absolutely heartbreaking.
+Radamel Falcao yet inevitable
+Radamel Falcao no. not really or at least not yet.
So, I'm just starting out as a professor at the university level and I must say these videos are extremely helpful. I teach American Government, Campaigns and Elections and other government related courses and trying to find ways I can present information to students with limited to no background knowledge takes up SO much time. These videos are a pretty good place to get my bearings, though. Thanks!
'Crash Course' is awesome!
4:23 Feel the Bern.
1:16 Dang, that's a cool picture.
strategic voting is a massive thing in my county but I don't know how important it is in the US considering they are a two party state(admittedly one reinforced by strategic voting)
When people vote, they are making a statement about themselves. They know that their single vote will probably not matter much in the total election, unless the election turns out to be INCREDIBLY close. So really the act of voting is just way for us to confirm something we like to think about ourselves. Whether that thing is "I am a conservative" or "I hate the Iraq War" or "I care about poor people" or "I'm a red-blooded church-going American". It's all about a declaration of self.
dude with the laptop by the pool is ballsy af
Feel the Bern! I'm so proud to be a Vermonter, Bernie is all I need and want
That graph at 1:54 is fascinating.
+TheFireflyGrave Your choices are %40 Left or %60 Right. Consider yourself a moderate? Sucks to be you...
+Evdog Music You can always register as an independent
ZVPieGuy
You /can/ but the First Past The Post system in place in the US assures your candidates' near-certain defeat before campaigning even starts.
Your Tom Bradley haircut bothers me lol, but thanks for the informational vid.
Can someone help me please? I need to know has there been any past elections where the “median voter theorem” has helped a candidate win
I'm curious, Craig, do you see this changing? I for one have seen more people voting based on issues, and the momentum behind Bernie Sanders indicates that there are a lot of people who have suddenly decided to become more informed voters because they see someone who is talking about the same issues they're concerned about, which they feel they've never seen before. I also would be curious to know if the "millennial" generation (those of us that vote) vote more on issues or based on party.
I guess you forgot to recognize Anthony Downs' "An Economic Theory of Democracy" which explains some of the reasons why voters would not deliberately seek for information to form an educated decision
4:50 For some reason I really like that shade of blue... idk why.
I thought it was more of a purple tbh
Simply put they're swayed. That's how politics start and ends.
In Ireland, weather has a statistically noticeable (that does not mean big, it means almost certainly existant) influence on the people/party we choose. Probably does in American too.
Granted the only one I could imagine being remotely viable here from your current lot is Sanders.
Video on the electoral college would be great
#FeeltheBern
no
I would love to know how he will pay for free college and healthcare. Please tell me.
+Matt Brady That's easy. All of the compassionate altruistic Lib profs will teach for free. /sarcasm
The economy will feel the bern when inflation is rising and the low-skill workers are being laid off because their work simply isn't worth $15/hr
+Matt Brady there's already a plan that Bernie has laid out for that. Google is your friend.
im the first to like this video. What an Honour :)
#FeelTheBern
+AssassinDawn I'd rather feel laissez faire
Nah.
+Ben Paulsen Crony Capitalism is not laissez faire
***** Regulated self-interests is what leads to corruption. Big business in bed with politicians leads to crippling regulations. These regulation are disguised as policies to limit and punish big business, while it does the opposite. Smaller businesses can't handle and afford the immense library of regulations. This also works as a deterrent to start up businesses.
No I go off of who people I know and respect and look up to are going to vote for
Thoughts with those in Paris - death toll currently 153. I don't want to know what it will be in the morning.
Eagle for President! making punching eagles Ill-Eagle since 1864.
Idk, I stay pretty educated about presidential elections at least, and the more educated I get, the more I feel like I couldn't vote for anyone from the other party.
this is scary!
FEEL THE BERN
Of insanely high taxes, insanely high debt, more government control, and a stagnant economy. Man I love flame wars!
+BBBuilds12 I'm all for more government control as long as transparency comes along with that control
+BBBuilds12 when the alternative is the exact same thing, but due to funding war, it makes sense to vote for the guy who voted against the Iraq and Afghanistan war and was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war.
half of the budget is just war.
the US is literally subsidizing the military obligations of other countries like Japan, because we're to paranoid to let other countries handle their own shit. The military should be trimmed.
Besides, Denmark doesn't have a stagnant economy, and the best economic times in the US had much higher taxes.
+Joe Mama Never going to happen lol. If America is supposedly the most free country in the world and our government is already shady as shit, the chance of any government being transparent is non existent. Unless someone or people manages to rise up as superior leaders and effectively removes all the corruption without becoming corrupt or getting killed by the status quo establishment.
+BBBuilds12 GOD DAMN YOU PEOPLE! *Gives you flame shield* You forgot it! damn.
The more you know!!!
Not only Does Every Vote matter, but I Believe every Voter counts
He speaks really quickly
party loyalty is tied to issues because most people assume the candidate will act the way the party has in the past. if your a libertarian like me then you have to decide what issues will be important in the coming years and if the candidate feels strongly about the ones you care about.
Abolish the IRS, and switch to a flat tax w/ no loopholes so that a CEO will never pay less than her secretary.
+Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen you can so it via percentage of income
+Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen a flat rate of Base tax along with tax on income would work if done correct. so 10 of Base tax then different levels of tax after that depending on income so low earners no extra tax and highest earners 45 percent of income. has been done In a few countries quite well.
+Naveen Yeah sorry, but that would not work mostly because the top 1% make over 30% of the money. Problem is that most of these people make their money through either being paid in stock options or from capital gains. After several years most of that top 1% can sell their stocks for only a 20% tax because that is how the long term capital gains tax works. A flax tax isn't enough considering it would just inflate the taxes at the bottom and not effect the people who are really cheating the system.
Let's look at this logically. A CEO, makes an annual salary of $1,000,000. A middle class family rakes in, all together, $100,000 annually. A poorer, possibly single parent family takes home $20,000 annually.
Let's just say for simplicity sake the taxes are at 10% across the board.
The CEO is taking home $900,000. The middle class family $90,000. The lower class $18,000.
Now, factor in all the other costly shit and the numbers stay relatively similar. However, the middle class and rich CEO can still live comfortably, with much less worry, while the lower class family may struggle immensely to attain a good quality of life. That is the exact reason a flat tax is not only starting those with a lesser income at a disadvantage, but it is also keeping them there.
No because that's crazy for people at the bottom. If you're making minimum wage and can barely afford to keep the lights on, you can't afford to pay the same portion of your income as tax as someone making 500k a year. Flat tax does not solve the problem of executives paying nothing, in fact it's the cause of it because capital gains (which is how very rich people make their money) ARE taxed at a very low flat rate.
A nation gets the leaders it deserves.
Craig may or may not have a time machine that he potentially may have used approximately seven to twenty-nine times.
Party loyalty
Issues involved.
Characteristics of candidates
I dunno Craig, given how many people supported the Patriot Act and the NSA's actions, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that desire for government transparency isn't as much of a given as you suggest.
I think it's irrational to say party voting and policy voting are completely different as the ideology someone was raised with May often follow party ideology but In an election with 2 parties, the party one identifies as will often have the most in common ideology wise
What annoys me - people who are too slack to vote in the first place but complain when the opposing party wins.
I argue against transparency when it comes to the potential glorification of murderers in the release of their names to the media. But its surely more complicated than I know
I vote with my gut. I vomit on the ballot.
In evaluating candidates before a recent election, I discovered that I'd rather vote for a naive fool than a competent cynic. What does this say about democracy?
This youtube video should be titled ´how people stopped voting and why it matters´.
Ant-Man was awesome!
The cause that trumps them all: advertisement. Why isnt that on the list?
It's hard to watch this episode in 2017.
So they're basically voting using the most an important characteristics of a candidate
Its pronounced Cha-pah-kwah lol
When people talk of "the polls" (in this point in the political campaigns, before Real Voting), who is taking these polls? Is it political scientists? Random selections of Americans of voting age?
+Dan English Ahloha Akbar!!! *boom*
...and yeah, it's sad, but when hear your typical American voter talking about why they like or dislike any given candidate, the person's policy positions seem to come up a very small fraction of the time (and it's obvious that a good chunk of the time, the voter in question has no idea what the candidate's policy positions are in the first place).
I don't understand how minimum wage is a spatial issue... I've literally never heard of any anti-raise-the-minimum-wage movement or rhetoric. I would say its a definite a valence issue.
Hi!
Party loyalty is stupid. Issues, past and predicted future performance is all that should matter.
3:20 Bo jiden??…
Hi Craig - I'd like to include some of your videos in the National Student Parent Mock Election / National Student Vote please contact me. thanks!!
Who's here because of the election?
#PrayForParis
+Parth Datar Ahloha Akbar!!! *boom*
Franziska Von Karma far 2 edgy for utube
dipcrap gofuckyourself
ur bein 2 edgy not me m8
Wanna see how it really (doesn't) work? Watch Adam Explains Everything on Voting.
With trump the question is "does the trump control the hair or does the hair control the trump?"
Totally cheered for Bernie Sanders. Yup.
...our whole election process scares the bejeezus out of me at this point. It's ridiculous.
If you want you can learn from ShepherdSurvives instructions how to do it.
hibbidy gibbidy!
#PrayingforParis
+Nicholas Bevins Yeah, why can't more people be like you and insult others on the internet for no reason? I'm sure that does WAY more to help the victims and survivers than showing sympathy and concern.
+Nicholas Bevins I do pray, and even if you don't believe in God he has granted my prayers, I hope he will help people in Paris. And people like YOU
+Anıl Ertürk I believe that it does a lot
+Nicholas Bevins are you happy about what happened, because you're sounding like you are?
+SocialGEEK Ahloha Akbar!!! *boom*
I like your hair better now dr davis
Fact: Ronald Reagan frequently said "Gibbidy Gibbidy!"
Comment Breakdown:
60% Americans are idiots or voting is stupid.
30% Stuff about the Paris terrorist attacks don't do with anything here
5% Sander Zombies
4% Other
1% Me complaining how this comment section sucks.
+Marylandbrony Lol. Exactly. Thanks for stating what I didn't have the words for.
Marshmallow920 You're Welcome I'm actually disappointed that this only has one upvote. But still it's a voice being listened to.
Marylandbrony The "Sanders Zombies" are pre-programmed to downvote anything that's deemed to reflect some "strange alien features" to them ,like truth, and facts.
Marshmallow920 Actually there is no down voting on CZcams comments due to Google + **Flies Away**
By flipping a coin.
+MichiganJack 10/10 best way to vote.
Yea by voting fot two parties....
as much as i appreciate the jabs to political scientists and economists, it might not be good to do that in videos that are geared toward highschoolers that might be looking at these professions as future careers and the jokes might be taken personally. i don't want to start anything by saying this really but it's just something i felt needed to be said.
Under 301 club!
#prayforparis
+Inorganic Vegan better than nothing
+Inorganic Vegan are you really going to be THAT guy? It's just a saying.... Calm down. Also, most people think praying is better than nothing so they do that instead of nothing.
+legoboy468 *Exactly the same as nothing.
+Inorganic Vegan You really have to be that guy...
Connor Dunn Some of us find it very offensive when people are being slaughtered and all you can do is "pray" for them to make yourself feel better. To us, you are being "that guy" by advocating prayer in a time of crisis.