Why does America’s system for choosing the president begin in Iowa?
Earlier than People vote on the subsequent president in November, each main political events should choose a nominee. That course of is known as the first, and in 2020 it consists of 64 totally different contests, held on 22 totally different days, over a number of months. And for some motive, all of it begins within the midwestern state of Iowa. So how did America’s political events provide you with this method? And is there a greater method to do it?
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1:27 We don’t, we choose nominees that way
This assumes that state elections are not correlated w/ national ones. They are.
Oh of course, too many white people is the problem. Of course this is a Vox video
SMH all American law and rules and ways are just silly old white men ideas it’s ridiculous that’s why so called America is a mess and a hypocrisy
You sure it was just randomly lol pick states be boy racism
It’s base on race like everything in America
Wow!! This video only pushes biden’s agenda to rig the primaries. A state is to white? Yeah it means I can’t fool certain states so let’s just switch the state to up my chances..hate dems
So it's a selection in the guise of elections….got it👍
Democratic Party has always been more centralized and rigged than the other one
Wow
Money and name recognition still wins the vast majority of time, even with this protracted primary season.
“The problem is the two states are really white” so? Who cares. Being white doesn’t invalidate your opinion. Diverse doesn’t mean correct.
Or better yet, we change our system to not have political partys and we all vote with a popular ranked choice vote, and everyone is given the same amount of campaign funding so who ever wins is president. Or it could be a stadium system where if there are 48 candidates they are broken up into 4 districts of 12 and the top 6 get picked then do it again till top 6 then once more till top 6 then president.
Alphabetical?
Is there at least one normal thing about the US elections?
😂???
Pretty sure Humphrey said he would end the bombing in Vietnam, idk pretty sure he wasn’t pro war tho
Change is good
Goodness this is convoluted!
At least now I understand why Trump has been obsessed with Iowa for the past 2 months
Two parties to be investigated by MI 6, seems both sold.
Why does everything has to be about Race in the US?
Isn’t that convenient that there’s a meltdown down voting system? That was a clue what to come and nobody saw it.
LOL, looks like Iowa still needs a lot of time to tabulate their results
It is a good system because otherwise the small states will get ignored.
what
That is part of American politics I like… well and not guys holding spear in bison head
the primary itself is complicated, I hope vox explain it in a much simpler way
Still dont understand how democracy works 🤦🏻
The states should just spread out over the course of a month, and what day each state goes on is drawn by lot, so the order is randomized. That way you have some spread but it changes year to year. You'd determine the order say a year in advance though, to give everyone chance to prepare and move their game to the early states. Just my two cents, I agree there are major problems with either the present system OR just having one big nationwide vote, different more creative ideas are needed.
Look, that was a brilliant video and I learned a lot, but can we just talk about the beat for a second?
Americans, why don't they teach this stuff at school?
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Wisconsin with the UP?
No wonder we keep getting disappointing presidential nominees, literally just one state decides all our nominees for both parties