Running the Data on a Romney Presidency
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- In 2007, when Mitt Romney sat downwith the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the candidate forthe Republican presidential nomination was eager for theinfluential paper’s blessing. What he got, instead, was theirbemusement.
The paper’s account of the interview begins with a three-word quote from Romney: “I love data.” The Journal editors goon to slyly note, “Mitt Romney has been speaking for less thantwo minutes when he makes this profession.” They then quote himagain. “I used to call it ’wallowing in the data.’ Let me seethe data. I want to see the client’s data, the competitors’data. I want to see all the data.”