Understanding the US Elections
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Trying to understand the American presidential elections? There's more to it than just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Confused about electoral colleges, super delegates, polls, incumbents, and candidates? Let me explain it for you! In this video, I'll teach you the vocabulary, definitions, and expressions you need to know to follow the US elections. You'll learn how the elections work, what the electoral college is, and who is involved in presidential elections. This information is very important for anyone living in the United States and for those who want to follow the US elections and world politics. I'll answer the questions: What is a primary? What is a caucus? What is the electoral college? What is a delegate, and what is a super-delegate? How do nominees become candidates? What is a pundit? What are swing voters? What is a presidential platform? After you've watched the video, take the quiz to test your knowledge of the American voting system! www.engvid.com/understanding-t...
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today we're going to talk about "The American Election". Now, if you live anywhere in the world, it's very hard to escape hearing about what's going on in America. The elections are coming up, everybody's talking about it. They're using a lot of new words, a lot of complicated words that you might not be familiar with, so we're going to talk about this. I'll explain to you a little bit how it works. I'll explain to you some of the words you're going to hear commonly. And keep in mind that although it's a bit more for advanced students because I have a lot to say about all this, there's a lot of new information here, but even if you're a beginner, lots of new words, lots of good words that are everyday words. If you watch CNN ever, you're going to hear some of these words because CNN loves to talk about the election. Okay? So let's get into some of this, and we'll see where we go.
First of all we're going to start with the two parties. Okay? So, America is essentially a two-party system. You have the Republicans and you have the Democrats. Now, that doesn't mean there aren't other parties. In fact, there are many parties in America, but usually they don't get many votes, and maybe even... Not even 1% of the total vote for all the little parties. Now, you can also have a third-party candidate, meaning somebody who wants to run by him or herself with his or her own money. Okay? Because the Republicans and the Democrats give money to their candidates to run a campaign. I'm going to go over all these words, so not to worry.
So, first let's start with the Republicans. Okay? They're sometimes called the GOP. You're going to hear this often. This is just a nickname, it means "Grand Old Party." I should make this a little bit bigger. Grand Old Party. It's just a nickname given to them a long, long time ago. In fact, both of these parties are over 150 years old, and they have won every election since way back when. And what they do is they often switch. Sometimes they'll go on a streak, like the Democrats will win a bunch of elections, the Republicans will win a bunch of elections. Sometimes they'll switch back and forth every election. It depends on the season, depends on the mindset of Americans. Okay? So here we have the two Democrats.
Now, the campaign, the... The attempt to run for office... Okay? So, "running for office" means trying to become president. So what happens is they start their campaign. A "campaign" is an organized effort to reach a goal. Okay? You have an advertisement campaign, you have a sales campaign. It's basically something organized with a target to reach by the end of it. In this case, the target is the presidency of the United States. So, this campaign usually starts well over a year before the actual election.
Before they can vote for a president, each party must present a candidate. A "candidate" is the person that the American people will vote for in November, Democrat or Republican. But before you have a candidate for each party, each party has nominees. A "nominee" is the potential candidate, people who are chosen to try to become the candidate. You could have three, four, five, 15. It doesn't matter. Whoever wants to try to be president can try.
Now, what they do, all these nominees, they go all over the country and they try to win delegates. I'll explain "delegates" in a second. So what they're trying to do is become the candidate for their party, they go around, they have a campaign, they give speeches, they put TV and radio advertisements, they do all kinds of things so the people will vote for them. Okay? Now, what they do is they go to each state and they have a primary or a caucus.
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thanks for sharing Adam.
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Adam, the best teacher, who not only makes the learning interesting, but attracts you feeling irresistible to join in his lessons. Many thanks to you, Adam.👍🏻❤️
Thanks Adam!!
I have recently moved to US,this video make me have a clear mind of election in US
I won't be confused next time when I hear about presidential election in radio.This is awesome!!!!!!!
Gracias por tus clases! Eres un gran profesor.
How much I've learnt, Adam! Very helpful video and very interesting subject.
As an American this is probably one of the best explanations of the American electoral process I have seen.
Thank you, Mr. Adam this lesson was really helpful and I appreciated.
We love you. The greatest teacher.
You couldn't figure it out how helpful was your explanation to me..... finally, I've understood this issue.... thanks a lot Adam.
You are extremely helpful, Adam. Thanks a million.
Thank you, Mr. Adam this lesson was really helpful and I appreciated.
You're a great teacher. Thank you for explaining everything so thoroughly. 😊👍
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Very good explanation, thanks.
Love it Adam. Thank you for this absolutely useful video.
What a great video Adam, as useful as your all other lessons.
I tried to take the quiz but I could not, any way hope to see many more videos from you. thankyou
That's awesome! You described how the american elections are in a few minutes. Thanks for help to everyone.
I love your channel! So usefull and educational. Many new right words for everybody, even natives. Thank you!
You choose an appropriate time to bring us this lesson, with very useful and interesting information about the American Election. Thank you for your effort, i apreciate it a lot :D
Time flies, it is 2020 now, but I will still watch this video.
watched two of ur videos, found u are a great teacher! thank you so much for helping us to learn english Adam!
Love you Adam. I really impressed with your videos. Keep it up dear.
Really good Adam! Congratulations. I appreciate that.
Thank you so much!! I was looking for this all my life!
Awesome, great that you made this content) best explanation ever!
Thank you very much for explaining the US presidential elections in such a brilliant and most interesting way. It'll help me (a retired Norwegian teacher) to explain it to my grand-children etc.
Nice work Teacher Adam!! You've gave us very hot updating lesson, that people like me should know about.. Thanks again for enlightening us whether it's about English, life or anything that might help us.. Thanks a lot!!
Regarding the thumbnail, Little Putin in the corner is really a touch of class! ;-D
Fuck them all !
Se Ti Well said ! 👍
I heard a lot about American elections, even regarding the last one - 2020, I've never heard something is useful like this one, really thanks....
You are extremely helpful, Adam. Thanks a million.
Thank you, Adam. I really appreciated this information!
thanks Adam, I really like all your lessons and your way of teaching.
Thanks for the excellent explanation about US elections!
Hey Adam, I would like to say thank you! I am a Brazilian student and your videos are very helpful.
Very important and interresting english videos,i'm a 4th year english student at ISSEG university (Guinea) i learned many things from your videos. Thank you so much Adam.
Your lessons are so impressive! Thank you so much!
Man, you should be my American government course instructor. I couldn't have understood it better. Thank you!
Really love your teaching please do more of this!
oh, it's really easy to understand thanks to your help! Great video :)
I really love the lesson. Very helpful because it helps me have a clearer picture about what is going on in America election. Thanks so much Adam
Luv your videos. Thanks a million.
Your classes are extremely helpful. Many thanks. 😊
as always, amazing helpful lessons. thank you.
You are so good explaining everything !!!!! Thank you!!!
It was a very useful and informative lesson . Adam you chose a right time to bring this lesson for us . I have moderate interest in politics but more than that this lesson leads me to know an enough effective vocabulary, and that's for me matters the most. Adam , you are a great teacher. You communicate very wisely. I highly inspired by you for this reason ☺ Keep teaching us such an useful lesson. They make us valuable .
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I am a Taiwanese English teacher.
(我是一個台灣的英文老師)
The reason why my English is so good in comparsion with most of my fellow Taiwanese is that I have been constantly learning and practicing English.
(我英文能力之所以比其他台灣大多數同胞來得強是因為我不間斷地學習與練習英文)
Hopefully the average Emglish ability level for Taiwanese can improve a lot in the very near future.
(希望台灣的平均英語實力能在不久的將來大大地進步)
I have finished watching this video completely.
(我已經完整地看完了這個影片)
This video is awesome！！！！
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It is bloody useful！！
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Big thanks to the teacher and all the fellow students around the world.
(大大地感謝老師與所有其他國籍的學生)
l love all your VIDEOS. Thank you so very much.
Really useful! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the explanations on these vocabularies,although I can’t comprehend all of them yet, they are good words to know....
loved the video, liked and subscribed
Thank you a bunch for help with understanding a bit of the system and a lot with english words and meanings! We need more English teachers like you in HUngary :) Cheers
you are extremely helpful Adam. thaaks for your great effort!
Thanks for good explanation of how this system works
An excellent explanation .thank you sir
Love your videos❤️
Thank you Adam!
your are the great man!
just wont to say, you are the great!!!
Thank you very much, your lessons helped me so much in all aspect of English. Very interesting and useful.
Thanks for the lesson Adam...
This is really helpful in many ways. Thank you from Tokyo.
Very helpful. Thanks Adam.
Thanks a lot Adam that you put a transcription on this video.
Thank you Adam. It is pretty good to know about US elections.
Adam is always in good shape as for lessons
Yep! He hasn`t changed at all since 2013.
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Agree. He has two additional grammar mistakes in his very short sentence. It should be "go to the gym" instead of "go to gym" and "maybe" instead of "may be". Some people are just rude and ignorant.
I am an Iranian from Iran! We are very well aware of the malice of China and Russia! Unfortunately, some Americans are simple and deceptive! You Americans do not know that Jobiden intends to humiliate America! He is an ignoramus and unfortunately he will be in the interests of China, Russia and terrorist countries! I swear to you, if you want America's honor, just vote for Trump.
muchas gracias Adam está increíble el video 😉
Very nice explanation. Thank you.
thanks a lot. your explanation is clear.
Very useful vocabulario.Thank you teacher
Alan, you are very, very good teacher! Congrats!
absolutely the best teacher ever
Comprehensive lesson and easy to understand!
Thank you! It is reallly helpful!
Thank you. this lesson was really helpful and I appreciated.Very good explanation, Very helpful video and very interesting subject. thanks
This explanation is best for thesis and essay writing., thanks a lot Adam
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Spyridon from Athens
Excellent lesson from an excellent teacher! Thank you so much!
You're very clear in your explanations, though I have some doubts but they do not have to do with you, but the system. I don't understand a few things about the electoral college: if a candidate can be president even losing the popular vote, so why is the popular vote carried on? And who chooses the members of the electoral college? Thanks for your videos, they bring me a lot of vocabulary.
Marcos Fernández basically, each state has a number of members of the electoral college. Even if a candidate wins a state by less than a percentage ALL the representatives of that state pledge to vote for that candidate. The system is good for states with a smaller population because a candidate could win the popular vote with just a few states.
Basically if it’s by popular vote, then only the heavily populated cities will decide who the next president is, while the least populated cities don’t get a say in who the president is. The founding fathers of the US never wanted a mob rule election where the majority will tyrannize the minority. Like why should the people of California care what the people of Wyoming need? Each state/city has their own set of issues/problems. And it’s the political party who gets to choose the electors, mostly registered members of the party. The requirements to be an elector is you must be a US citizen, did not become a part of any type rebellion against the country, and must not hold an office of trust, though I don’t really know what office of trust is.
Love it.. Nice explanation.
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What a mess! My head hurts hahaha
Thanks Adam, you're a great teacher and this is a very useful lesson!
Liked and subscribed. Great explanation. Love from India
Great lesson David, really useful to people out the USA, like me, who are interesting in international politic relations. Thanks a lot from Colombia.
thanks man, I live in English sphere since 2014 and your lectures are very helper(?) for it Of course yours colleges lectures also
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Thanks a lot teacher! I have been so impressed with this lesson!!! I love USA and my Country Mexico.
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