{"id":14215,"date":"2026-06-25T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14215"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:33:43","slug":"in-defense-of-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/in-defense-of-the-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/in-defense-of-the-electoral-college\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there anything more to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recently reiterated <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2026\/06\/23\/hillary-clintons-remarks-on-the-electoral-college-only-shows-she-cannot-get-over-the-2016-election-n2678133\">fulminations<\/a> against the Electoral College apart from the fact that she lost to Trump in 2016?\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s an abomination.&#8221; &#8220;For obvious reasons.&#8221;\u00a0 But I will say something nice about the embittered loser.\u00a0 \u00a0If she got her emotions under control she probably could explain the reasons <em>for<\/em> the EC, something I don&#8217;t expect AOC or Kamala Harris could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here. Is there anything more to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recently reiterated fulminations against the Electoral College apart from the fact that she lost to Trump in 2016?\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s an abomination.&#8221; &#8220;For obvious reasons.&#8221;\u00a0 But I will say something nice about the embittered loser.\u00a0 \u00a0If she got her emotions under control she probably could explain the reasons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/in-defense-of-the-electoral-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Defense of the Electoral College&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14216,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14215\/revisions\/14216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}