Surveying the many empty chairs, Hendrik Hertzberg, an editor at The New Yorker and one of the four panelists promoting the national popular vote, pronounced the turnout pathetic. “It doesn’t look much like a revolution,” he lamented.
Nonetheless, he said, four years from now, when the popular vote is the law of the land and every person’s vote is counted, the handful in this room will look back on this moment as their Agincourt. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, will make a change in democracy,” he declared, equating what he believes will be their eventual victory with one of the great triumphs in English military history.