Eric Cantor's math problem

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday May 01, 2014 · 1:03 PM PDT

2014/05/01 · 13:03

This exchange wins the Internet for the day—it's House Majority Leader Eric Cantor trying to defend the bogus unskewing Republicans attempted with Obamacare enrollments, which I suppose is actually less of a math problem than an honesty problem.

House GOP E&C confirms @charles_gaba's math that their report found 3.65 million federal ACA enrollees. Actual # via HHS: 5,446,178.
— @SabrinaSiddiqui

@SabrinaSiddiqui 3.65/5.44=67%
— @GOPLeader

@GOPLeader No, 2.45M/3.65M =67%. Already taken into account.
— @SabrinaSiddiqui

@gopleader @sabrinasiddiqui Good Lord. You're the House Majority Leader and you can't do basic math? Please, you're embarrassing me.
— @charles_gaba

@gopleader @sabrinasiddiqui Your 2.45M figure means you only counted 2/3 of the total Fed Exchange enrollments.
— @charles_gaba

At which point Eric Cantor bows out of the discussion entirely. Smart move.

2:49 PM PT: Charles (aka Brainwrap) goes through the math here. But the basic issue is that Cantor is not being honest with the numbers he's using in that tweet.

Eric Cantor's math problem

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