Summary: One week after Donald Trump’s historic upset victory, both parties are preparing for what comes next. <a href="https://www.ndi.org/deanh">Howard Dean</a>, the former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential hopeful, has put forward a bid to return as Democratic National Committee chair. He talks about the lessons of this year’s campaign and what role the DNC could play in the future.<br> With Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote — but not the majority of the electoral votes — there is once again a movement to get rid of the Electoral College. <a href="http://pols.tamu.edu/about-us/faculty-directory/george-c-edwards-iii-distinguished-professor/">George Edwards</a>, a presidential historian at Texas A&M University, lays out his argument why the EC has outlived its usefulness and why electing the president via popular vote would be more fair.<br> One of the weaknesses of the Electoral College is the ability of electors to ignore the wishes of how their state went in the election and vote for whomever they prefer. <a href="http://mikepadden.src.wastateleg.org">Mike Padden</a>, a Washington Republican state senator who was an elector for President Gerald Ford back in 1976, explains why he decided to vote instead for Ronald Reagan … who wasn’t even on the ballot that November.<br> And we talk with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Suarez">Ray Suarez</a>, a journalist who spent 14 years working closely with Gwen Ifill at PBS. Ifill died this week of cancer. She was 61.<br> <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gwen-ifill-renowned-journalist-author-dies-61-n683636">Photo via Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images</a><br> Music used in this podcast:<br> <a href="https://youtu.be/qoWKJ5K4PTE">Real Love by Wendy Wall</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Utopia/dp/B0000032PD">The Road to Utopia by Utopia</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-You-Live-TRACY-CHAPMAN/dp/B000A3DG8A">Change by Tracy Chapman</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01929IAQK/ref=sr_1_1_rd?_encoding=UTF8&child=B01929I164&qid=1479342771&sr=1-1%3C/a%3E">Birthday by The Beatles</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SVEFDQ8/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp">You Can’t Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-of-leonard-cohen-mw0000479876">Suzanne by Leonard Cohen</a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>
