Remember that article about the Republicans mocking Democrats for living in the "reality-based community" (where they "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality")? I always thought that may have been a bit unfair, since the quote was from an unnamed aide to the President.
But then I see this interview NPR did with Karl "Fixing up my resume" Rove right before the election (transcript here):
SIEGEL: We are in the home stretch though and many would consider you on the optimistic end of realism about…
ROVE: Not that you would exhibit a bias, you just making a comment.
SIEGEL: I'm looking at all the same polls that you are looking at.
ROVE: No, you are not. I'm looking at 68 polls a week for candidates for the US House and US Senate, and Governor and you may be looking at 4-5 public polls a week that talk attitudes nationally.
SIEGEL: I don't want to have you to call races…buy fluoxetine online ecnsweb.org/img/ecns2018/jpg/fluoxetine.html no prescription pharmacyROVE: I'm looking at all of these Robert and adding them up.
buy diflucan online www.mrmcfb.org/images/layout5/png/diflucan.html no prescriptionI add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math.
SIEGEL: I don't know if we're entitled to a different math but your…buy stendra online ecnsweb.org/img/ecns2018/jpg/stendra.html no prescription pharmacybuy zydena online www.mrmcfb.org/images/layout5/png/zydena.html no prescriptionROVE: I said THE math.
Evidently Rove's faith-based mathematics, based on internal secret polls that I'm sure were in no way biased towards those who were paying for it, lost out to the reality-based ones.
Ed says:
Reality 1, THE math 0.