Name: 2016年のアメリカ選挙を理解する (Understanding the 2016 US Elections)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:39:00.000Z
Duration: 17 min 42 s
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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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

This is just a nickname, it means "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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Now, what they do is they go to each state and they have a primary or a caucus.

Basically, this is like an election, but it's state by state.

Each state votes for the nominees of their choice for each party.

So in one state the primary for Republicans will be voted on only by Republicans, people

who have joined the party, people who have registered as Republicans.

Now, a "caucus" is a little bit more confusing.

A "primary" is just a straight vote: "Here's who I want", check, vote,

Even Americans don't really know what a caucus is except in the states where they have a

caucus, but basically a caucus is more like a discussion.

You don't have a checkbox necessarily, you discuss and you say who you want to be your candidate.

Each state votes for the nominee of their choice, and then the winner of this vote gets delegates.

A "delegate" is a representative of that state, and that delegate or delegates, depending...

Each state has different numbers of delegates, they will go to the convention in July for

So the Democratic convention and the Republican convention.

A "convention" is basically a very big meeting.

So it's a huge meeting, and all the delegates from all the states, all the representatives

come to the convention and vote for the nominee who got the most votes in the primaries.

Now, once you have a winning nominee, like you have a...

Let's say you had your 10 nominees and then after the primaries, one person got enough