Oh, the liberties we take with statistics...

Brad DeLong is a really cool (does that trivialize him?) econ professor whose posts I take to be very authoritative. They are far from being just about economics. Here is a snippet of his very apropriate comment:

..."We're not an economic-reporting firm, we're a campaign," says Bush policy director Tim Adams.

Just keep that in mind *whenever* you hear a number reported by the friends of George W. Bush.

Read his short entry here.