Race for the White House - Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

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Article first published as Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Technorati.

Cartoon:  Walt Handelsman Copyright 2012 Tribune Media Services

Isn't it ironic? Crossroads GPS upset?

Claim Obama quoted Reagan out of context, yet

At the link that they provide to prove Obama wrong;

Post scores by Pinocchios and guess who's nose was long?

Of the current candidates, Obama's nose is short.

Romney and Newt Gingrich lie more often they report.

Romney's latest whopper about 92%

Unemployment rate for women? Nose is broke and bent.

They don't have a category yet for true though not.

Romney tried to slip that number by but he got caught.

That is not the way to make a woman like a guy;

We can spot a phony and we know that numbers lie.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review