Comments on: Early and Often: Voting in America http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/ VFH Radio at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Sun, 19 May 2013 03:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bryon Higgs http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/comment-page-1/#comment-47032 Bryon Higgs Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:31:34 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=229#comment-47032 I listen to the podcast while dog walking just outside Waterloo, Ontario Canada

“…what if Blackbeard the Pirate wanted to run?”

What if a hollywood actor wanted to run?

]]> By: Pulling the Curtain: Voting in America | BackStory with the American History Guys http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46807 Pulling the Curtain: Voting in America | BackStory with the American History Guys Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:42:28 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=229#comment-46807 [...] Portions of this show first aired as part of the BackStory episode “Early and Often: Voting in America,” broadcast in October 2008 and which you can listen to here. [...]

]]> By: What the Heck is the Electoral College? | BackStory with the American History Guys http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21058 What the Heck is the Electoral College? | BackStory with the American History Guys Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:23:37 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=229#comment-21058 [...] Excerpted from: Early and Often: Voting in America [...]

]]> By: American history lite « The Do It Yourself Scholar http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/comment-page-1/#comment-99 American history lite « The Do It Yourself Scholar Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:27:48 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=229#comment-99 [...] recent show, Early and Often: Voting in America, describes the boozy frat party atmosphere of 18th century voting, and relates how the secret [...]

]]> By: ALLWILL6 http://backstoryradio.org/early-and-often-voting-in-america-2/comment-page-1/#comment-98 ALLWILL6 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:35:34 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=229#comment-98 Great show! I’m a WHRV listener in Suffolk, VA. Today my 6th-grade son asked about the Electoral College. I bumbled through a description and ended with, “it kinda works like the ‘checks and balances’ of the three branches of government.” When he asked why the founding fathers needed checks and balances to elect a president, I was stumped. I went hypothetical: “there wasn’t any national news back then…what if Blackbeard the Pirate wanted to run? He was popular (around here) but he’d have made a terrible president….that’s why the founders invented the Electoral College.” Here’s my question, how did citizens LEARN about presidential candidates/electors in the 18th & early 19th centuries? How did they even know WHO was running before the election? Did they feel ANY obligation to seek out unbiased information about the candidates? Thanks for a terrific show! I look forward to listening as often as possible. ALLWILL6

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