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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:12 AM Sep 2012

Mitten's long, dark night

40 Days of Night
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: September 28, 2012

Mitt Romney is losing badly. And he has only himself to blame.

Not only is he trailing President Obama in almost every national poll, he’s trailing in almost every poll of swing states.

What is the Republican response? That there must be some magical, maniacal skew in the numbers, and the skew must be a conscious effort by a scheming, elite media to dampen Republican enthusiasm.

There may be an oversampling of Democrats in some polls, but this is by no means universally true. And the fact that Obama has a growing lead when the polls are taken in aggregate is undeniable.

This is just an extension of the Republican war on facts. If you find a truth disagreeable, simply deny it. Call it corrupt. Suggest that it is little more than one side of a story — an opinionated, biased one — and insist that there is another explanation. The base will buy it.

Let’s just call this Operation Ostrich.


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Mitten's long, dark night (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2012 OP
War on facts is the only type that they do not use other peoples' kids to fight as they teach their lonestarnot Sep 2012 #1
 

lonestarnot

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1. War on facts is the only type that they do not use other peoples' kids to fight as they teach their
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:14 AM
Sep 2012

kids how to lie and how to lie well.

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