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Election Basics: Crash Course Government #36

Welcome to school without the classroom! Host Craig Benzine takes you through a tour of US government and politics.

Election Basics: Crash Course Government #36

Season 1 Episode 36 | 8m 44s

This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. As you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem particularly plausible. So to deal with this complexity, we vote for people, not policies, that represent our best interests.

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