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NYT Reporter can’t understand the Electoral College

I need an explainer on the electoral college. How is it that the person who got the most votes in this election is the one who lost? — Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) November 10, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Callimachi has done some very good reporting on the fight against ISIS, so I won’t crucify her here. But the…

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Callimachi has done some very good reporting on the fight against ISIS, so I won’t crucify her here.

But the fact that a byline reporter from the New York Times, a former AP bureau chief, needs an explanation of the Electoral College is, frankly, astonishing.

Both the Constitution of the United States and the whole collection of The Federalist Papers are available online, for free. That anyone can graduate from an “elite” university (Dartmouth) without reading, and understanding the Constitution is a severe indictment on our institutions of education. Heck, she graduated from an American high school. She should have learned it there.

And one of the most beautiful things about the Constitution is that it is quite easy to understand. It was written with a clarity that certainly isn’t found in current government writing. Probably the most confusing piece in the Constitution is the bit about capitation taxes, and even that can be puzzled out with a few minutes reading.

The shame is that we’ve taught an entire generation to have strong passions about the flaws of the Constitution, without having any grounding on why the Constitution was written the way it was.

And so we find ourselves today faced with the problem that Instapundit describes, where our “elites” aren’t elite, but merely elitists.

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Responses to “NYT Reporter can’t understand the Electoral College”

  1. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    I’m pretty much a Luddite and I know how to put a question in the “Search” box.

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  2. KenH

    Perhaps forward some thoughts to the infantile moron:
    a) You are a constitutional Republic
    b) You are NOT a MOB

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  3. Heh

    “she attended The Thacher School in Ojai, California. She graduated from Dartmouth College, and from Exeter College, Oxford”
    Oy vey. So much for those expensive credentials.

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  4. DaveP.

    The shame is that we’ve taught an entire generation that passion substitutes for understanding…
    FIFY

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  5. Captain Ned

    Make me Education Tsar and 8th-grade civics class has but 3 topics:
    Declaration
    Constitution
    Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers

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  6. Jaedo Drax

    I’m Canadian, and I know how the electoral college works.

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  7. timactual

    It’s what I have come to expect from the media; laziness and ignorance. I even assume her curiosity if faked; the only questioning she does is rhetorical questioning.

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  8. Jeff Gauch

    What I find particularly amusing is the call for electors to vote for Clinton over Trump despite the results from their state. They completely ignore the fact that the electors are generally chosen by the party that wins the state and voting against their party’s nominee would be not only out of character but political suicide.

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  9. Dave

    Yes, the push is on to disregard the election and have electors vote for Hillery. It might be Arkencide to not vote for her or it might be a portion of the billions stashed away to purchase that vote.

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