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Abe Zaidan has been a professional journalist and freelance writer for more than forty years. He was the Ohio correspondent for the Washington Post, as well as a political columnist at the Akron Beacon Journal.
Written by Abe Zaidan, with John C. Green
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Abe Zaidan has been a professional journalist and freelance writer for more than forty years. He was the Ohio correspondent for the Washington Post, as well as a political columnist at the Akron Beacon Journal.
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- Stars and stripes - but hopefully not forever!
- Ken Blackwell, now a Tea Party huckster
- Christie: High praise for Obama's efforts in cri...
- No cookies this week for Ben Stein from Mitt
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- Youngstown Vindicator offers words to Mandel
- Sununu, the white man's candidate
- Brown-Mandel debate: Josh just being Josh
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- Bombshell Trump is back on the stump
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- The Womens binders chronicles (cont'd)
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- With pants on fire, Mandel cries "Liar"
- To Dinesh, wife and fiancee are Christian values
- For Congressman Peter King, time doesn't fly
- Detente, at last, at Summit Board of Elections
- With Ryan, the soup kitchen's brass got hot
- Mandel tells it like it ain't at City Club debate
- Hey, the entire campaign is out of context
- Robart to Mitt: You electrified me
- Ryan hardly qualifies for the depth chart
- Mitt spins health care; Josh visits us with robo-...
- It's time for a Romney reflective flash button
- To Josh Mandel: Have you no decency, sir?
- Summit Board of Elections: Same old mess
- The new Mitt has a teasing smile
- The NY Times may be on to something
- Another Summit elections board deadlock?
- Welch concedes: No evidence for what he said
- Tale of two Americas, Romney style
- A word from Grumpy
- The Debate: a field goal with three quarters to go
- On Planet Romney, multi-choice percentages
- Perez: Another outburst followed by gopher ball
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4 comments:
Obviously, economist Stein never pledged allegiance to Grover Norquist and his no-new-tax theology, which is now the mantra of the vast bulk of Republican office-holders. Most economists world-wide have pronounced Romney's tax policy mathematically null and void. My own modest arithmetical doodlings, after decades of parsing federal budgets, come to the same verdict as Stein -- a conservative -- and the majority of other reputable economists. One wonders how such a devout practitioner as Romney can continue to preach such an apostate economic faith.
Poor Ben. In the past I've found joy in laughing at his stage performances. Facing reality has never been one of this strengths.
To borrow a sports slogan, ala the Phillies of many seasons ago, you just gotta believe.
Is Romney's support eroding?
Because it is possible to be a practitioner and a bulls**tter at the same time?
The answer is simple for Romney and his supporters - denounce the economists saying the numbers don't add up. So, one plus one equals three if you believe it does. Don't let anyone permit stats, methods, or science get in the way of what you believe. It is the exaxt reason why the current press targets (Joe Scarborough, Jennifer Rubins, etc.) are individuals such as Nate Silver and Dr. Sam Wang from Princeton as they use stats to the project election. It breaks the Romney set narrative his campaign and his surrogates have been setting.
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