From the KPFK studios in Southern California, it's the Ralph Nader radio hour.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. My name is David Feldman. Steve Scrovan is

shopping for property in Canada this week. And we're here with the man of the hour, Ralph

Nader. Hi, Ralph. Hello, what a program we have today. Post election. Yes. We're going

to devote the full hour to election analysis with two of the most astute political commentators

on the scene today. And we're going to do that in a roundtable format. So joining us is

returning guest Bill Curry who writes for salon. Mr. Curry was a White House counselor to President

Clinton and a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut. He is at work on a book

on President Obama and the politics of populism. Welcome back, Bill Curry. Thank you.

And we're also joined today for the very first time by the National Affairs Correspondent

for the Nation magazine, John Nichols. Mr. Nichols is also contributing writer for the progressive

and in these times. He's also the Associate Editor of the Capital Times, the Daily Newspaper in

Madison, Wisconsin. Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour, John Nichols. It's an honor to be with

all of you, Ralph. Thank you again, Bill and John. I want to get started with a comment you made

this morning, John Nichols, on democracy now. This is the second presidential election in 16 years

where the Democrats won the National Popular Vote for President and lost the Electoral College.

When do you think the Democrats are going to take a stand against the Electoral College and

support the ongoing interstate compact that has been led by Steve Stilberstein in San Francisco

that has now enough states to 165 electoral votes on the way to 27?

I would hope that one of the playoffs of this election cycle would be a rapid and impassioned

embrace of that change. Look, there are many proposals for how to get rid of the Electoral College.

We should have done it a century ago, long, long ago, longer. But now we are faced with a fundamental

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