Democratic party “strategist,” Paul Begala, commented in a cable-TV seance last night that John McCain received only 72% of the GOP vote in Kentucky, and “he had no opposition.” Math was never a favorite subject of mine in school, but I learned enough about it to be able to reach the following conclusion: if 100 people vote in an election, and 72 of those people vote for candidate A, the remaining 28 must have voted for someone else. I was in school before the onset of “new math,” so I may still be clinging to antiquated notions! The returns from … Continue reading Down the Memory Hole