I mean, where do I start?
I’m tempted to start by noting the staggering irony of President Trump insisting on Twitter that a new poll showing him losing by a wide margin to former vice president Joe Biden relies on the same bad math that convinced a slew of Republicans in 2012 that Mitt Romney, then the party’s nominee, was likely to easily defeat incumbent President Barack Obama. Romney did not defeat Obama, as you may recall, because the bad math was bad. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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