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| Carter was fooled says Harvard and MIT Profs |
| 2004-09-10 |
| I'm using the Wall Street Journal report. Haven't found the original yet. New evidence that Jimmy Carter got fooled [also that he is a fool] in Venezuela. Thursday, September 9, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT Both the Bush Administration and former President Jimmy Carter were quick to bless the results of last month's Venezuelan recall vote, but it now looks like they were had. A statistical analysis by a pair of economists suggests that the random-sample "audit" results that the Americans trusted weren't random at all. This is no small matter. The imprimatur of Mr. Carter and his Carter Center election observers is being used by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to claim a mandate.... The new study was released this week by economists Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard and Roberto Rigobon of MIT... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #7 Can it be? Jimmuh Peanut helped another of his Communist dictator pals stay in power?--Oh no! I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| Posted by: GreatestJeneration 2004-09-10 12:50:40 PM |
| #6 "Carter was fooled" Carter is a fool. In other news, water is wet and the sun rises in the East. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-10 12:24:25 PM |
| #5 He only go fooled because he WANTED to be fooled. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-10 12:23:59 PM |
| #4 ummmm didn't W go to Harvard for an MBA? SW - that was sarcasm, wasn't it? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-10 12:19:49 PM |
| #3 Tu, it's nice to have a Harvard boy do the statistics -- hard for the LLL to argue with a Harvard boy. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-09-10 12:04:36 PM |
| #2 It took Harvard and MIT to figure that out that Carter got conned? They could've just asked me. I could've told them that before it even happened. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-09-10 11:54:21 AM |
| #1 That's not too difficult to do. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-10 10:31:09 AM |