Listen to Support it, WNYc on WNYc. Now we're joined by our colleague over at Radio Lab, Latif Nasser, co-host of Radio Lab, who is giving

the Radio Lab treatment to a controversial aspect of our presidential elections that's particularly relevant right now as

everyone obsesses over the swing states. What is it? It's the electoral college. Why

is it that voters in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona, or whatever states are close

calls in a given year seemingly hold all the power?

Why are the candidates visiting multiple cities in Michigan, but rarely spending time in say the big four population

states of California, Texas, Florida, and New York. Why do voters in some states

literally have more say than the voters in other? Why do

voters in some states literally have more say than the voters and others?

This is how Hillary Clinton and Al Gore won the popular vote but lost their

elections, right?

Doesn't a democracy imply one person, one vote?

Radio Lab's Electoral College episode is out today.

It's called The Unpopular Vote,

and none other than co-host Latif Nasser is here with the story of the origin of the

electoral college how it affects our elections today compared to say 1789 and

the episode is also about one man who has spent his career attempting to abolish it.

Hey Latif, welcome back to the Brian Laire Show.

Oh, thanks so much for having me Brian.

I'm so happy to be here.

We have a couple of clips to play from the episode,

but set this up for us a little.

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