CNN Outright Lies About James Madison and the Electoral College
Posted at 9:00 am on March 21, 2019 by Bonchie
Apples, bananas, and facts first. This is CNN and all that.
They’ve never met a liberal narrative they weren’t willing to shamelessly shill for, often to the point of outright lying. Yesterday was no different, as the battle over the electoral college has heated up in the Democratic primary. For CNN’s part, they decided to do this.
There’s just one problem with this hottest of hot takes. It’s objectively false.
David Martosko
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Huh? Madison basically created the Electoral College. What he called "evil" was Thomas Jefferson's habit of using slave populations as a way to "weight" electoral vote allocations, and his trading favors for "winner-take-all" results that benefited him.
CNN
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The Electoral College has been debated since the days of James Madison, who called it "evil."
So could it actually be abolished? @JohnAvlon explores that in today’s #RealityCheck. https://cnn.it/2OgCOfz
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https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/03/21/623124/
