If you are looking for a balanced, apolitical explication of the electoral college and its history (as I was), you will not find it here. Presumably bankrolled by, and featuring "experts" from, the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, this film is simply a transparent attempt to justify the relevance of the electoral college in a modern democracy, and downplay the importance of the popular vote in protecting our democratic institutions. As such, it joins a long line of recent films that masquerade as fair and balanced documentaries while in fact delivering one-sided propaganda strictly focused on supporting a particular point-of-view -frequently a far-right one. So if you're a right-wing acolyte looking for snarky factoids to post on Facebook in support of your political positions, this clumsily packaged bag of flawed arguments might just be your cup of tea. If you're anyone else, keep moving please - nothing to see here.
Yet another film purporting to be a documentary that is actually a con job
23 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers