[Jacko]

Originally Posted by ryberg

Not denying them agency. I don't see their reactions as being so much like that, however, and worry about the tendency to exploit them and about their likely hard feelings later.

Really in many ways I think this campaign reveals a disturbing lack of numeracy and logical reasoning on the part of an awful lot of people, from the candidates to the press to the public. One simple but persistent example is the focus on victories -- the won-loss record -- state by state, as if all states were pretty much equal. The fact that NC is "only" the 10th biggest state in the nation and yet is worth more than 4 WVs is buried and lost in comments I heard today from I think it was Wolf Blitzer, to the effect that Clinton would benefit from a "big win" in WV. It is not possible in the context he was talking about -- should she continue? -- to get a big win in a state the size of WV with the lead Obama has now. It was equally misleading to talk about NC and IN as if they were roughly equal in this campaign when NC was significantly larger and more valuable than IN. And it just goes on and on and on.

Steve

Only?

Then redeemed....