Chron editors fail Political Science 101
As we frequently point out, Chronicle staff editorials are frequently childish and simplistic (and sometimes just plain mean).
Those first two characteristics were never more evident than in Friday's editorial criticizing the electoral college.
The editors spent exactly one paragraph (out of eight) laying out the position of defenders of the electoral college, which to them is this:
Defenders of the system claim it clears the field of fringe candidates who might dilute elections early on and obfuscate clear winners. Small states, meanwhile, would be loathe to give up the attention guaranteed by their outsized electoral clout.
Defenders actually have far better claims than that silliness concocted by the Chronicle editors. Walter Berns lays out some of those in this essay. And if that academic prose is too complicated for the editors of the Chron, here's an LA Times op ed by Benjamin Zycher. We know the Chron's editors are familiar with the LA Times, since so much of the Chron pages reflect the editorial choices of the LA and New York Times.
Hard to believe they would be unfamiliar with Zycher's arguments, eh?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/06/04 09:50 PM | Print |
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