{"id":3888,"date":"2016-05-23T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/john-oliver-proves-primaries-and-caucuses-are-the-worst-part-of-voting\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:50:45","slug":"john-oliver-proves-primaries-and-caucuses-are-the-worst-part-of-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/john-oliver-proves-primaries-and-caucuses-are-the-worst-part-of-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver proves primaries and caucuses are the worst part of voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you feel like your vote doesn’t count, you might be right.<\/p>\n

Many times in our election process filled with strange math and mysterious delegates and super delegates, a candidate can actually end up winning an nomination even though they don’t win the popular vote. But how does that even happen? John Oliver decided to dive into the issue on last night’s\u00a0Last Week Tonight<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: John Oliver and Lin-Manuel Miranda perfectly explain why we should help Puerto Rico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bernie Sanders supporters and Trump supporters have been rallying behind the issue of voter disenfranchisement, particularly when their candidate lost a state due to not winning enough delegates.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you feel like your vote doesn’t count, you might be right. Many times in our election process filled with strange math and mysterious delegates and super delegates, a candidate can actually end up winning an nomination even though they … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,739,749,3008,735],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-caucus","tag-entertainment","tag-politics","tag-primaries","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}