Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- In 2007, when Mitt Romney sat down
with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the candidate for
the Republican presidential nomination was eager for the
influential paper’s blessing. What he got, instead, was their
bemusement.
The paper’s account of the interview begins with a three-word quote from Romney: “I love data.” The Journal editors go
on to slyly note, “Mitt Romney has been speaking for less than
two minutes when he makes this profession.” They then quote him
again. “I used to call it ’wallowing in the data.’ Let me see
the data. I want to see the client’s data, the competitors’
data. I want to see all the data.”
