Election Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #36
This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues...
========== Hi, I'm Craig, and this is Crash Course Government
and Politics, and today I'm gonna talk about an aspect of American elections that is probably
most familiar to you, at least if you're an American and you sometimes watch TV, or look
at the internet, or read a newspaper, or breathe air. I'm talking about elections, which get a lot of
attention here in the US, and on Crash Course, possibly because they present a relatively straight forward narrative, and it's easy for the media to cover. But we're not going to focus on media coverage today.
No, instead, we're going to look at why we have elections in the first place, and the institutions and procedures that structure the way elections work in America. We might even compare them to...