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as 2 of the last 3 presidents were elected the loser got more votes than the winner because people don't pick the president states to the electoral college consists of each state's 2 u.s. senators plus the number of its u.s. representatives total $538.00 half of which is to $69.00 so whichever candidate racks up $270.00 electoral votes wins after it came down to hanging chads and 2000 and trumps thin margin and 2016 and with this record 2020 turn out does the electoral college still make sense let's ask 2 of shall we say a symmetrical political perspectives on the left we have washington based.

indications specialist claire meyerhoff and on the right popular texas radio and t.v. pundit and columnist paul de lies are you tell me texas dot com and unlike the other cable news channels which degenerate into a shouting match we still think manners matter so we're going to defer to the event in 60 minutes point counterpoint format paul then claire make the case keep the college or lead voters decide. absolutely keep the college more than ever keep that it is for apps the most far sighted vision of the. founders work they. understood that in order for a president to be able to govern he had to add support not only of a majority of the people but a majority of the states support for the president and support of his agenda cannot

be geographically concentrated it has to be dispersed that's why in order for a president to be elected vs to win the majority of the both in the majority of the states and our electoral college system is genius in that in that it's a series of defaults if the president's all of a presidential candidate receives a big majority of the popular vote it is virtually certain that he will win that majority by having won a majority in the majority of the states but if it's close then it defaults to a majority in a majority of the states and then it still close and we still don't have a decision it becomes up to the states 3 of their elected representatives in the house and in the house of representatives so it's a series of defaults so that the president has the best chance of being able to govern the country as a whole as opposed to being a executive that's chosen by a small portion of a country that now spans an entire continent consists of 330000000 people claire i

appreciate that you were available for this discussion this week because during the campaign you had such an eagle eye on the electoral map make the case against keeping the college. well i love being a lecture on that because i've always had a class and some not like a combination of like in politics and i think you all make a lot of great point and i mean i can passionately counter his excellent. argument about the color of. work but i wrote that over the years i have a lot of friends. think they will i live in maryland but i'm a conservative republican my thought was or i retire or you're. conservative in life or. so i think people in general may be a little bit more. powered or engaged with the system is being really to reset like

they're single of. us of congress is what institution and i think like paul says i think it is something that's held all these years and our country banked on a lot of checks and balances and that one way to ensure that the. living in rhode island can identify with does my vote matter paul go ahead. what's been. reported margin in georgia. under 20000 votes it's very very very you vote absolutely true. yeah the population is measured in people and the map is measured in acres so i think that that's where the majority really doesn't rule but you've heard the president he barely took a breath for most of an hour when he phoned in to fox news saying this election was rigged this election was a total fraud disappointed as they may be by the presidential outcome people i see

posting on your blog that you tell me texas dot com are cheering the republican down ballot wins including the $36.00 new republican women in congress $33.00 of them just elected so paul which is it if trump calls the election bogus isn't he disqualifying the entire vote or do you make room for the possibility the trump's tweets and antics just got old with a lot of republicans and make room for the possibility that the normans number of ballots or them are for elections were marked only in the presidential race and none of the down ballot races and why did that happen it's right it's because a lot of ballots were hastily art in order which by often there was no time to mark down but the people who actually did vote the people who generally vote voted for

president struck and the people on his eye make room for that. yeah that is one of rudolph giuliani is top talking points paul the a think the giuliani represents the president well yes i do but i know you don't but i do. think he argues is case of clear. the whole lot of people have style issues with the president style issues with giuliani but look at the substance look at what he says look at the arguments they are sound. well he's getting a laugh out of court from state to state but let's let's switch hats here for a minute clear your message and professional so i want you to take off your political hat and i know this is a stretch put on your profile sessional hat suppose you were on team trump advising on message what would you suggest the president project now. where i

think being i think probably are very difficult job and miers are better like it's awesome or you know i don't know. like if i heard her grab our radio. and i heard. and i really i mean the breadth the presidential take a near term. george herbert walker bush is the generation that. i think was. the last person and move to a challenger and doesn't rip them apart. and george herbert walker bush and was very gracious person in the 1st place 'd that gracious and. and what i would advise the president is you didn't want some george herbert walker bush hates from back in 9092 in the in the last. the 1st year it's always

really just about. one of. them isn't person or securing our schools all your brain it's all together. because of that i made sure i was kind of special about inauguration day go ahead paul. i'm sure that democrats love the fact that a whole lot of republicans got very very good gracious concession speeches and i think mitt romney's best day in the entire 2012 campaign was the day that he that he admitted the fact that he blew the race against a barack obama you know republicans republicans tired of being gracious losers and i believe and i think that's reason to believe that there's a whole lot of shenanigans that went on in this election in until such time as we do 70 percent of republicans and 30 percent of democrats supported the rest some

who think this election might have been stolen is until such time as we are satisfied that it wasn't continuing the fight is entirely appropriate there are 74000000 people whose votes out there may have been nullified they have a right to know whether or not they were lost legitimately or whether or not they won in until the such time is that's a step was the fight ought to continue yeah while we are grading concession speeches kudos to albert gore after that the florida debacle in 2000 paul the trump ists i see posting in such outspoken terms on your blog you tell me texas dot com are really dug in if you had joe biden's ear what topic or issue would you suggest to him that might at least intrigue the mag a crowd. beat at least give that at least the appearance of

being business for it. recognize that there are millions of guys out here like me who cover a payroll tax and every time you raise taxes write a new regulation you make that the doing of that more difficult and you don't because you've never actually held a job in your life insurance health it never signed a paycheck anywhere except on the back you don't appreciate what it's like it least give the appearance of appreciating the businesses like me that are that create all the jobs that are the backbone of the economy instead of looking upon us when we have a good year and make good income looking upon us of them as having gotten it in an ill gotten way in which you soon as you have 5 to 5 mediocre years of the never really good year that you're suddenly rich and the government wants to wants to produce up complete take a disproportionate share of your earnings guys like me or keep in the think going yeah the bidens a big gun made in america out of the block but and i'm down to

a minute so i need your concise response to this but i'm glad you went there when you were with us back in april you were talking about how local businesses on the retail market there in texas were coping if january and february turned out like their forecast to be which businesses do you think cannot take another hit and which business industry categories have shown during this pandemic i got about a minute go ahead paul ok i'll give you 30 seconds the restaurant and the restaurant travel and lodging industry can't take anymore. they just can't. simply can't another blow when they're done and anything ever to do with making the home a more conducive place is done extremely well you can't get sued or lumber and try to do something in my own backyard you can't get materials people are fixing home. those businesses are doing extremely well. thank you paul gleiser and claire

meyerhoff appreciate your time well coming up there is no place like home for the holidays but then what the a vixen moratorium ends at the end of this month and without more relief money from washington many americans can't make the mortgage what happens next this is the big picture on our 2 year america. things become more extreme in which he used to write when this is like breaking norms not necessarily in a good way. satire he knows the. right is an edgy strain is like the reality is.

we are segregated only by social class law school class people also in poverty by 1st place if you're born into a poor family if you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years old if you're born into generational poverty. it's a it's a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. join me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

the usa may be facing the most of the year housing crisis in history listen to this over 100000000 americans live in rented housing and 30 to 40000000 of them could lose their housing when the fiction moratorium expires at the end of this month and this is according to census data analysis by the aspen institute is their time to defused this ticking time bomb let's ask our t. boom bust co-host serum on test sara even before the pandemic shut down through of so many out of work lots of renters were already struggling to pay their rent correct that's right hala so as you mention and some 20000 number show 47.5 percent

of americans work cost burden i want to refer to a study that was done through the a vixen lab looked at data between the year 2002016 now between these years about $61000000.00 of exceptions were filed nearly $4000000.00 evictions were filed each year so at an annual basis now in relation to the entire population of nearly $330000000.00 people in the u.s. it's still a relatively small number but not small enough to completely dismissed by any stretch housing costs have soared even before the pandemic increased by 70 percent between 1905 and to date now this is something harvard sociologist matthew desmond touched on in his book titled evicted back in 2016 while a lot of american families that they've seen their income remain purty flat over the last 2 decades there's a much bigger gap when you look at the end come and what americans actually pay and in today's market many americans as. and have been paying $6070.00 and even 80

percent of their income to these private rental markets now the pandemic has obviously made things a lot worse or more americans are filing for unemployment obviously we saw some big numbers earlier friday and the enhanced benefits passed under the cares act like you said will expire at the end of this month the end of this year but one of them being the c.d.c.'s moratorium. even in normal times though the eviction process is cooler to some than others isn't it it really is hall and let's take a look at the individuals who are running byrd in their burden in so many different ways now that eviction lab study found that people of color are disproportionately burden and at higher risk of addictions here are people of color made up about 80 percent of those 61000000 of actions that i spoke about between those years of 2000 to 2016 and according to the census bureau survey black people and latino's have

been highly burdened during the pandemic 3 months into cova 19 african-americans and latino runners were twice as likely as white renters to report really their their inability to pay rent now it's people of color those with low income those with less education who are at higher risk of being a victim now $40000000.00 americans are at risk of action by the end of this month if unemployment remains at the levels we're seeing now which the november numbers they don't look good and it very well may given the surge in coven 1000 cases that we're seeing across almost every state in the u.s. since many experts are predicting that even though we have this vaccine with high africa see that it's really just going to take a long time before things get better which could mean that that eviction number will be closer to the 43000000 and this is according to the sons of state about holland i also want to point out that the numbers from the most recent u.s. census bureau survey. completed in late september also show that at least 25

percent of these renters have small children so 25 percent of run churches that are unable to pay the rent have small children so that's that makes things even worse and harder for the american people. which is a long time long suffering landlord myself i'll flip the coin when the renters don't pay their rent the building owner can't pay the mortgage share are we on the verge of some kind of mortgage foreclosure domino effect while it's possible and you have 2 different types of landlords right you have some who could probably weather the storm for a few months at least then you have those who are relying completely on rent collection for their own mortgage these are landlords who are struggling and often then turning to banks for some sort of her parents but right now the banks aren't necessarily being the most helpful as you might be aware of some landlords are working with their tenants and an actual a recent survey from the american american apartment owners association showed 80

percent of landlord said that there they are actually willing to defer rent to tenants who actually need it rental and mortgage assistance programs are also being offered across the country on a local level this is something the american people aren't necessarily aware of but some landlords they are still pulling money together to pay the mortgages as well for their own properties i wish i didn't have to say this but it is a mixed bag i want to bring up the major corporation landlords like amazon for example where they're really investing heavily into this commercial real estate office space they're already preparing for bringing people back to work for in person work once a pandemic is over once a vaccine is available others who are not well capitalized they're moving entirely to virtual workspaces because they're seeing that americans can and are able to work from home but this sort of increased level of transiency that we're seeing is even forcing place. we work that shared office space to consider offering these old

church short term leases for people who wish to use office space they're looking at offering it from one day to a month or doing mt a monthly basis which is a little bit different than what we've seen before but there is not an overly collapse more kind of a paradigm shift that we're seeing when it comes to businesses and commercial real estate owners that they're facing. yeah i think we're going to see a whole paradigm shift in the workplace there's got to be a glut of office space even as some of it is repurposed creatively you mention forbearance which can only go so far when the shutdown hit here in rhode island our governor closed the courts so even were halted temporarily and we've even seen news footage of protesters ringing the courthouse in new orleans to keep the landlords out what do you expect to happen after december 31 when

this foreclosure and even action moratorium expires well that's the problem hall and once that expires without any government action we will be seeing millions of americans of a once that happens some states and hopefully it doesn't happen because some states might seek to impose their own moratoriums others that might just let the law revert to prepare them form right which would would then cause that unfortunate wave of addictions we're talking about i don't think this is too likely though we've seen corporations and courts react to the actual conditions on the ground this is despite the fair amount of dysfunction or seeing at the federal level and it seems likely that states and governors are really going to come together and they are going to take it upon themselves to pick up that slack that another stimulus bill would have taken care of but it is important to note that in early october the target ministration announced some policy guidance that tenants can start the eviction process so. even while the federal moratorium remains in place

the policy also allows landlords they're not required to make tenants aware of any of them and runners are also obviously like we've been talking about among the hardest hit by this recession a bipartisan coalition of lawyers and local legislators are pushing a renter's stimulus plan so essentially $45000000000.00 would come from their security deposits across the country it provide nearly $1400.00 to every american renter some cities have already rolled out some sort of program like this cincinnati and atlanta are 2 cities that have there's actually a new program aside from this is wall here in d.c. the nation's capital that's going to help landlords the landlords who are struggling to pay their mortgages they'll be able to apply directly for there's a $10000000.00 government loan simply a government grant sorry to to cover attendance missed payments now that money is coming from the cares act and it's going to help small landlords i think with about

20 apartments or less it's called the housing stabilization grants and it will cover missed payments between april and november d.c. will cover about 80 percent of tenants rent arrears up to 2000 dollars each month if the landlord forgives the remaining 20 percent now $9000000.00 will go toward affordable housing projects and the other $1000000.00 will go to the small landlords with the 20 or fewer apartments like i mentioned but with us unemployment numbers rising for the month of november this isn't looking good right but but it will also likely push congress to act you know u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is talking to us treasury secretary steven minucci in mcallen all they're all having discussions regarding all of this stimulus or doing something about this and word on the hill is that they will likely include stimulus as part of the omnibus. by next week but something to get done

otherwise millions of americans with small children families they're facing eviction and really i think i think something will get done because both sides are now with the democrats now taking the white house they're really the they're only initiative is to try to get something passed i think both sides really want this. memo to congress send the check americans need the money and those dollars are going to buy mutual funds that dollar will bounce all over main street usa and the economy needs it several months thank you again for stepping into the big picture thank you. may we have a word well apparently not each year at this time the oxford english dictionary picks their word of the year and after all we've been through this year they cried uncle admitting that it quickly became apparent that 2020 is not a year that could neatly be accommodated in one single word of the year though what

was genuinely unprecedented this year was the hyper speed at which the english speaking world amassed a new collective vocabulary relating to the coronavirus and how quickly it became in many instances a core part of the language but not before other words which kept changing in january as australia suffered its worst ever fire season bushfire was big as an impeachment president survived a senate removal vote acquittal was everywhere then came the shutdown when we went into lockdown and social distancing mode and hope for reopening by june george floyd's death and other sad news propelled black lives matter and cancel culture by august virus wary voters were ready to mail in and a controversial election there a boost of the word belorussian in september of the u.k.

coronavirus testing program was dubbed moon shot and a month later when many americans shutdown fatigue to let our guard down and as covert spread within the white house super spreader entered the lexicon last. years word of the year was climate change and after the wacky weather we are still suffering and the wildfires that rage out of control in the west climate change is not so last year and that is the big picture back again with another show next week in your pocket or purse in a good way with our portable t.v. you can download it free at portable dot tv or in the app store or google play if you want to set your d.v.r. we're on direct t.v. channel 321 on the dish dish 2820 and r t america streams live at youtube dot com slash r

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