WHITHER THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?

Thom welcomes conservative professor and author Robert M. Hardaway to debate the question of the electoral college. Would a national popular vote undermine democracy? George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote, by a half-million and 3 million votes respectively, yet occupied the White House even though a majority of Americans didn’t want them there. If we don’t get money out of our politics and enforce the laws against foreign meddling in our elections, we may well see the end of the American experiment in democracy. The stakes have never been higher.