Hear Me Out: The House Should Elect The President
On today\u2019s episode of Hear Me Out\u2026 Parliamentary America?\n\nIt\u2019s Super Tuesday, and the process by which we elect a president is on full display (warts and all). Americans on both sides of the aisle agree that the electoral college has to go. But what should replace it?\xa0\n\nMaxwell Stearns, author of Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy (out 3/5/2024), presents his case for restructuring American government to look more like a parliamentary system \u2014 and, in the process, to take presidential elections out of the hands of voters and conventions and into the hands of elected coalitions.\n\n\nIf you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com\n\nPodcast production by Maura Currie.\n\nYou can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus! Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month\xa0for your first three months.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices