Dean Baker is a generally left leaning economist. He used the phrase statistical fluke but he has very good reasons for doing so. Absent the political spin that both sides will put on this it's not necessarily anything to write home about. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/data-bytes...ce-january-2008It is absurd though for people to suggest that Obama supporters fixed the numbers.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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