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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, December 2nd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Is the Electoral College a better way to elect a president than by popular vote?

After George W. Bush was declared the winner in 2000, Al Gore said that he continued to support the system. Now he's changed his mind.

Here's what he said at an event in Washington.

It's a balancing act, but I think the balance has shifted, in my mind at least, and I think that we should go to a popular vote.

I think it would stimulate public participation in the democratic process like nothing else we could possibly do.

And in the internet age, having people more involved, we got to get back to harvesting the wisdom of crowds in the United States.

We've got to get back to the kind of conversation of democracy that allows good ideas to rise to the service.

Jeffrey Tubin joins me to discuss concerns about this issue and about voting rights that have emerged since Donald Trump's victory last month.

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