reminded me of when lanny ginere, i don't know if she still teaches at harvard, but she used to. she wrote the book called "the tyranny of the majority" about digit w different ways to do democracy. weighted voting. things like that. is any of this relevant relevant to this discussion? is it possible to get headway on different ways of actually representing the plurality, if not the majority? >> there are a lot of reforms that are out there that -- i'll just give my own bias. a lot of reforms that are out there just don't make any sense. let me give you a couple of examples. i've talked with the people at americans elect and they keep onlyi in coming to me and asking me to support them. they'll have a presidential candidate of one party and vice presidential candidate of other party. well, since vice presidents have no more influence than this glass, it doesn't make any difference at all. but there's another one that's gotten -- and a friend of mine is pushing this and other people, and it sounds good at first. instant runoff voting. but here's what's wrong with that. if any of y