Friday, February 5, 2016

White lies, black lies, and math lies

from Democratic candidates exhibit a new ferocity in last debate before N.H. vote by Anne Gearan and Karen Tumulty in The Washington Post online:

“But Sanders kept bringing the argument back to her ties to Wall Street. Through the end of December, the financial industry had given at least $21.4 million to support Clinton’s 2016 presidential run — more than 10 percent of the $157.8 million amassed to back her bid, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings by The Washington Post.”

Actually 136 percent more than 10 percent! Here’s how to do the math.


If you’re a Post subscriber, you may want to check your bill, though the mathletes in billing are surely isolated from the takeastabatitaletes (and don't round up 3.56 to 5, because that would be a more accurate approximation, if you're going to approximate) on the reporting side. (The math was repeated in Tom Hamburger’s “Clinton blasts Wall Street.”)

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