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"But as MinnPost’s David Brauer reported yesterday: the story of the 32 absentee ballots is flat wrong. He called up Minneapolis election director Cindy Reichert to get the facts. She (Pawlenty during two Fox appearances in as many days called her “he”) attests the car-ballot story is “just not true”: She never had the ballots in her car — nor were they in anyone’s car for several days — and they were kept in secure facilities between election day and vote counting. It was Coleman’s attorney, Fritz Knaak, who told reporters, “We were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.” From there, the Wall Street Journal picked up on it and reported it as fact; similar to Hannity’s on-screen graphic (shown above), the error appeared in a story headlined “Mischief in Minnesota?”
But according to Brauer, Hannity is wrong on another count: “every one of” those 32 ballots did not go to Franken. Franken won half, 18 16, seven were cast for Coleman, and the remainder went to other candidates."
http://minnesotaindependent.com/17385/recount-hannity-pawlenty-car-ballot-lie
it's become predictable; the rightwing trots him out whenever it needs some pseudostatistical cover. he first sold his soul when he discovered how much he could get for it with the NRA as client.
"John Lott of the American Enterprise Institute, who recently published an extensive analysis on Iraqi crime figures, says the numbers indicate that Baghdad's murder rate dropped from 19.5 per 100,000 people in July to a rate of five killings per 100,000 people in October."
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/12-29-03.html
Annualized Murder Rate in Baghdad per 100,000
April 100
June 135
August 185
October 140
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/opinion/14OHAN.html?ex=1384146000&en=93145b1c5a4198a8&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND