It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my

co-host David. Hello David. Have you been getting any sleep the last few days?

No, this Wallace Berry marathon on Turner Classic movies kept me up all night.

Well, I guess we have our own ways of coping.

And we also have the man of the air.

Ralph Nader, hello, Ralph.

Hello, everybody.

As we record this program on Thursday morning, November 5th,

the results of the presidential election remain uncertain. But what is certain is that

this election has been closer than many of us expected. Donald Trump won more

total votes than any Republican nominee in history. Something I'm sure he will be trumpeting for a long time.

Despite everything this president has stood for and done, how could that possibly be?

How come the Democratic Party could not landslide this obvious authoritarian malignant narcissists.

What does this say about what American voters really care about?

Is Trump's brand of nationalism here to stay? Why is there such a huge urban rural

divide? What does this say about how we even vote in this country? How come the

United States of America who bills itself as a paragon of democracy is such a creaky Rube Goldberg machine of a voting system.

These are all things we've talked about one way or another on the show before, but today

we've invited the executive editor of the American prospect David Dan to help us sort through it all.

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