mr. hume, you co-authored an op-ed saying even as it was back then it is still a necessary part of president shall politics today are you make the case. days --e: the candidacy the candidates these days are campaigning for electoral votes, not popular votes. that is what drive the current campaigns and is more sophisticated with the ability to project and determined electorate by computers down to almost the individual house votes. the main issue really is that the electoral college serves as a means of creating regional diversity and does protect smaller states from larger states which is the main thing that drove it. you can take the current election. whatever you think of the outcome, at the present time and we are still counting votes college is one of the problems with popular votes. hurry clinton's margin is about 3 million votes. she carried california by 4 million votes by itself. in 2000 the margin was only about half million votes. how gore carried new york and california by more tha

hume? >> any regulatory or even until recently consumer attention. >> afterwards there's a book to be every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sundays and appear mr. them. you can watch previous after his programs in our website, book to be.org. >> you're watching book tv on c-span to with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers tonight a book tv in prime time we want to show you some programs from our afterwards series from this past year. first up senator mitch mcconnell talks about his life and politics with senator lamar alexander. the book is "the long gain". >> it this is the book about a shy boy who grew up in alabama,

hume? >> any regulatory or even until recently consumer attention. >> afterwards there's a book to be every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sundays and appear mr. them. you can watch previous after his programs in our website, book to be.org. >> you're watching book tv on c-span to with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers tonight a book tv in prime time we want to show you some programs from our afterwards series from this past year. first up senator mitch mcconnell talks about his life and politics with senator lamar alexander. the book is "the long gain". >> it this is the book about a shy boy who grew up in alabama, overcame polio, was inspired by henry clay at the university of louisville to become a senator and did and then set out to become the majority leader of the united states senate ended. mitch, have a confession to make when i was asked to do this, here's what i thought. how can anyone get mitch mcconnell to talk for an hour. in your book and you point out that you only speak to the press when it's to your advantage, you talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you in the two of