Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays?

Zašto Amerikanci glasaju utorkom?

Prevoditelj: Ivan Stamenković Recezent: Tilen Pigac - EFZG

(Glazba)

Želim vam govoriti o dijelu Američke povijesti

I want to tell you all about a piece of American history

koja je tako tajna

that is so secret,

that nobody has done anything about it for 167 years,

da nitko nije ništa učinio po tom pitanju

već 167 godina

until right now.

do ovog trenutka.

And the way that we're going to uncover this vestigial organ of America past

A način na koji ćemo razotkriti ovaj zakržljali organ Američke prošlosti

is by asking this question:

je postavljajući pitanje: Zašto?

Why?

Kao što svi znamo,

As we all know --

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

we are in the middle of another presidential election,

nalazimo se usred još jednih predsjedničkih izbora,

u žaru borbe, kao što vidite.

hotly contested, as you can see.

(Laughter)

But what you may not know is that American voter turnout

Ali ono što možda niste znali je da odaziv Američkih birača

rangira blizu dna ljestvice svih zemalja u čitavom svijetu,

ranks near the bottom of all countries in the entire world,

138th of 172 nations.

138. smo od 172 nacije.

This is the world's most famous democracy.

Ovo je najpoznatija demokracija na svijetu.

Dakle!

So ...

Zašto glasamo utorkom?

Why do we vote on Tuesday?

Da li itko zna?

Does anybody know?

I zapravo, Michigan i Arizona glasaju danas.

And as a matter of fact, Michigan and Arizona are voting today.

Evo odgovora:

Here's the answer:

nema nikakvog valjanog razloga.

Absolutely no good reason whatsoever.

Ne šalim se.

(Laughter)

I'm not joking.

Nećete naći odgovor

You will not find the answer in the Declaration of Independence,

u Deklaraciji Nezavisnosti,

nor will you find it in the Constitution.

niti ćete ga naći u Ustavu.

It is just a stupid law from 1845.

To je samo glupi zakon iz 1845.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

1845., Amerikanci su putovali konjima i kočijama.

In 1845, Americans traveled by horse and buggy.

Kao što sam i ja, očito.

As did I, evidently.

It took a day to get to the county seat to vote, a day to get back,

Trebao je dan ili više da bi se došlo do općinskog mjesta za glasanje,

dan da se vratiš nazad, i nisi mogao putovati na sabat.

and you couldn't travel on the Sabbath, so, Tuesday it was.

Dakle, utorak je taj dan.

Ja ne putujem često konjem i kočijom,

I don't often travel by horse and buggy, I would imagine most of you don't,

i vjerujem da ni većina vas to ne čini,

tako da kad sam doznao za ovo, bio sam fasciniran.

so when I found out about this, I was fascinated.

Povezao sam se s grupom koja se zove -- kako drugačije? -- Zašto Utorak?

I linked up with a group called, what else -- "Why Tuesday?"

kako bih pitao neke od naših najpoznatijih izabranih vođa

to go and ask our nation's most prominent elected leaders

if they knew the answer to the question,

da li znaju odgovor na pitanje,

"Why do we vote on Tuesday?"

"Zašto glasamo utorkom?"

(Video) Rick Santorum: Da li itko zna?

(Video) Rick Santorum: Anybody knows? OK, I'm going to be stumped on this.

OK, ovo će me začuditi. Da li itko zna zašto glasamo utorkom?

Anybody knows why we vote on Tuesdays?

Novinar: Da li vi znate?

Jacob Soboroff: Do you happen to know? Ron Paul: On Tuesdays?

Ron Paul: Utorkom?

Novinar: Dan poslije prvog ponedjeljka u studenom.

JS: The day after the first Monday in November.

RP: Ne znam kako je do toga došlo.

RP: I don't know how that originated.

Novinar: Znate li vi zašto glasamo utorkom?

JS: Do you know why we do vote on Tuesday? Newt Gingrich: No.

Newt Gingrich: Ne.

Dick Lugar: Ne.

Dick Lugar: No, I don't. (Laughter)

Dianne Feinstein: Ne.

Dianne Feinstein: I don't. Darrell Issa: No.

Darrell Issa: Ne.

John Kerry: In truth, really, I'm not sure why.

John Kerry: Zapravo, nisam siguran zašto.

(Smijeh)

JS: OK, thanks very much.

(Laughter)

JS: Ovo su ljudi koji žive za izbore,

JS: These are people that live for election day,

yet they don't know why we vote on that very day.

ali oni ne znaju zašto glasamo baš na taj dan.

(Laughter)

Chris Rock rekao je, "Ne žele da glasaš.

Chris Rock said, "They don't want you to vote.

Da su htjeli da glasaš, ne bi glasanje stavili u utorak u studenom.

If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday in November.

Jeste ikad radili zabavu u utorak?

Have you ever thrown a party on a Tuesday?

(Laughter)

Ne, naravno da niste. Nitko se ne bi pojavio."

No, of course not. Nobody would show up."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Here's the cool part.

Ovdje je zanimljiv dio.

Because we asked this question, "Why Tuesday?"

Zato što smo postavili ovo pitanje, zašto utorak? postoji zakon, Akt za glasanje vikendom,

there is now this bill, the Weekend Voting Act

koji se nalazi na razmatranju u Kongresu SAD-a.

in the Congress of the United States of America.

It would move election day from Tuesday to the weekend,

To bi pomaknulo dan izbora sa utorka na vikend,

so that -- duh -- more people can vote.

tako da --duh -- više ljudi može glasati.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Trebalo je samo 167 godina,

It has only taken 167 years,

but finally, we are on the verge of changing American history.

ali napokon smo na rubu promjene

Američke povijesti. Hvala vam puno.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thanks a lot.

(Applause)