<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6a0c0e4-bb2d-425d-bb76-a787fac69c9d/DC2BA0FD-5FA3-43BA-9B75-A4DEED514B39/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx" href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.tnr.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx"><SPAN class="articleTitle"> McCain's Not Very Big Guns </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx"><P>In a <A href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDYyNjBiM2FmNGZmZjBlYWI4YzgyYWI4YmI1NTdlNzA=" class="">post</A> entitled "The Booming of the Big Guns," Peter Robinson boasts that the McCain campaign has gotten "100 economists" to sign a <A href="http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/96557315-1694-4d8f-9b0a-c29f0f0872e6.htm" class="">statement</A> warning of the grave effects of Barack Obama's economic program.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx"><P>This statement strikes me as far less devastating than Robinson makes it out to be. First, 100 economists is not actually all that many, given the number of economists in our country. Second, the list of signatories actually has only 90 economists on it. (<A href="http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/96557315-1694-4d8f-9b0a-c29f0f0872e6.htm" class="">Count for yourself</A>.) This trouble with basic arithmetic might explain the McCain campaign's stated beliefs in such fallacies as <A href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/01/18/mccain-lies-his-head-off-new-york-times-asleep-at-swich.aspx" class="">tax hikes always cause revenues to fall</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/10/mccain-s-not-very-big-guns.aspx"><P><EM>Update</EM>: A survey of academic economists by <EM><A href="http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127" class="">The Economist</A></EM> finds overwhelming preference for Obama's platform.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC2BA0FD-5FA3-43BA-9B75-A4DEED514B39/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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