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🗓️ 19 November 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Stephen Silberstein of National Popular Vote rejoins us to tell us how the Electoral College can be reformed to more fully reflect the will of the people. And Ralph pays tribute to longtime colleague and head of The Center for Auto Safety, the late Clarence Ditlow.
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:05.7 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to song. |
0:12.2 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello, Steve. Good to be talking to you. I missed last week. |
0:23.0 | It was a great discussion with John Nichols and Bill Curry. |
0:26.0 | And we're going to have another great discussion this show. |
0:29.0 | In the second half of the program, we're going to continue to absorb what happened on November 8th when a billionaire real estate |
0:34.8 | mogul in reality TV star became the 45th president of the United States. |
0:40.6 | In addition to my own questions, we're going to devote the second half of the show to your questions in response to the last week show featuring commentators John Nichols and Bill Curry. |
0:49.0 | We will also check in with corporate crime reporter Russell Mokie, the Lou Grant of the corporate crime beat. |
0:55.2 | But first, ever since the election, my inbox has been flooded with petitions to abolish |
1:01.2 | the Electoral College. |
1:03.0 | Now we discussed this with our next guest way back in the summer of 2015 and he's back |
1:08.6 | with us again today. |
1:10.9 | Stephen Silverstein visited with us last summer to talk about how he would reform the |
1:15.1 | electoral college, not abolish it, but change it so that the electors would vote more in |
1:19.9 | line with the national popular vote. |
1:22.1 | In light of recent events we thought we'd |
1:23.6 | bring him back to once again tell us how all of that would work. His |
1:27.7 | organization is called National Popular Vote whose purpose is to implement a nationwide popular election of the |
1:35.1 | president of the United States. We can only imagine the traffic that website |
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