special math
reuters' jon decker on delegate math, and hillary's claim that she is winning the popular vote.
". . . and i think that what she would like to do in these last remaining contests is put her over the top on the popular vote count so she doesn't have to use this special math."
the special math is the math that ignores caucus states, which obama won and where there is technically not a vote. i think it's not so much the math that's special but the twisting of language.
isn't this reminiscent of "depends on what the definition of 'is' is"? or scalia saying waterboarding is not cruel and unusual punishment because, though it may be cruel and unusual, it's not technically punishment. ah, lawyers. this is gonna be fun.
". . . and i think that what she would like to do in these last remaining contests is put her over the top on the popular vote count so she doesn't have to use this special math."
the special math is the math that ignores caucus states, which obama won and where there is technically not a vote. i think it's not so much the math that's special but the twisting of language.
isn't this reminiscent of "depends on what the definition of 'is' is"? or scalia saying waterboarding is not cruel and unusual punishment because, though it may be cruel and unusual, it's not technically punishment. ah, lawyers. this is gonna be fun.
Labels: politics
posted by kath at
09:31
2 Comments:
As a wise person once said,"If you torture a statistic long enough, it will give you any result you want."
great! or as mark twain said, there's lies, there's damn lies, and there's statistics.
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