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US politics & elections is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 187 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 291 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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US politics & elections Videos Recommended on Hacker News (187)

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George Lakoff: Moral Politics

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google

Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy

We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The Voting System That Should Replace Every Election

The Voting System That's Actually Too Good for Politicians to Allow

Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile

The Voting System That Gives You Two Votes

Animated Voting Methods

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability

How our voting system (and IRV) betrays your favourite candidate

Jim Jefferies -- Gun Control (Part 1) from BARE -- Netflix Special

Republic, Lost (my favorite version)

Milton Friedman - Why Tax Reform Is Impossible

The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish

You Can Win the Presidency With 22% of the Vote

Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order

The UK Election Results Were the Worst in History

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

Brian Springer - Spin

LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance

U.S. Territories: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Eisenhower Farewell Address (Best Quality) - 'Military Industrial Complex' WARNING

Reagan and Bush Debate Immigration, Border Fences, and Undocumented Children in 1980

How We Should Vote (Range Voting)