Hi, this is Melinda and I'm spending my 23rd birthday doing dishes, making dinner, and

listening to my three favorite reporters on the NPR Politics podcast.

This podcast was recorded at 12.43pm on Thursday, March 21st.

Unless you're as obsessed as I am with these people, something has probably changed by

a time you hear this.

Okay, here's the show.

Now I want to know who the three are.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

I'm Domenico Montenoro, political editor.

I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting, and I'm Ron Elving, editor correspondent.

Alright guys, there's two big things we're going to talk about this week.

Democrats wanting to scrap the Electoral College and what their campaign contributions

are telling us about the race so far.

So let's start with the Electoral College.

Ron, what is the Electoral College?

Electoral College is a group of people who are elected state by state in November of

a presidential year on election day and they are elected to then go represent that state

in the Electoral College.

Several weeks later, when people have stopped paying attention and they think who knows, they

know who has been elected president, the actual election of the president takes place in

the Electoral College some weeks later, reflecting the vote state by state.

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