By Suzanne Smalley
Medill News Service/Y Vote 2000
Northwestern U.
Then there's the other candidate and his own brand of serial exaggerating to account for. George W. Bush said Democrats have spent more on the contest then Republicans have shelled out for his campaign, a bizarre misrepresentation when one considers the oil man's cronies and their notoriously deep pockets (deeper than even the biggest oil well in Texas).
Finally, the complexities of the various tax plans with their labrynthine twists and turns and exemptions haven't exactly made the youths of America feel embraced by the political process. Even PhD. economists have trouble making sense of the competing plans' meaning and manipulations.
Feeling fuzzy yet?
Just in case, here's one more doozy. Fuzzy math remains a problem -- in fact, the arithmetic is getting so fuzzy that even Dubya himself is becoming confused by his own numbers.
In a Florida campaign appearance last week Bush stumbled while trying to do the math in his tax plan, tried to recover, and finally let his sentence trail off before asking his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, for some help. If an Andover-schooled Yalie can get stumped by adding, then one can only imagine what those Texas schools are doing to young minds.
Ever the quick study, George stopped rambling and made a joke.