{"id":571,"date":"2022-04-22T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=571"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:31:48","slug":"electoral-college-political-cartoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/electoral-college\/electoral-college-political-cartoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral College Political Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-574\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/9EEB1A96-C13E-4FDC-A7CE-E9B787F54171-300x237.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/9EEB1A96-C13E-4FDC-A7CE-E9B787F54171-300x237.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/9EEB1A96-C13E-4FDC-A7CE-E9B787F54171.jpeg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Electoral College often claim that it attaches outsize importance to a few \u201cswing\u201d states and doesn\u2019t accurately represent the demographics of the country; this is an older map (from 2012) but gets at how some people feel that certain states are treated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Image Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HomeworkHelp\/comments\/qunr2j\/grade_9_american_gov_electoral_college_lesson\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HomeworkHelp\/comments\/qunr2j\/grade_9_american_gov_electoral_college_lesson\/)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the Electoral College often claim that it attaches outsize importance to a few \u201cswing\u201d states and doesn\u2019t accurately represent the demographics of the country; this is an older map (from 2012) but gets at how some people feel that certain states are treated. &nbsp; (Image Source: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HomeworkHelp\/comments\/qunr2j\/grade_9_american_gov_electoral_college_lesson\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electoral-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}