Stop the Presses! Krugman Acknowledges Miami County Mistake!At the end of
Friday's column, which I
fisked over at Lifelike comes this startling announcement:
Corrections: In my column last Friday, I cited an inaccurate number (given by the Conyers report) for turnout in Ohio's Miami County last year: 98.5 percent. I should have checked the official state site, which reports a reasonable 72.2 percent. Also, the public editor says, rightly, that I should acknowledge initially misstating the results of the 2000 Florida election study by a media consortium led by The Miami Herald. Unlike a more definitive study by a larger consortium that included The New York Times, an analysis that showed Al Gore winning all statewide manual recounts, the earlier study showed him winning two out of three.I can actually imagine Krugman deciding that the 98.55% figure, which I fisked
here and
here, had to be revised, but the notion that he actually fessed up about Florida is quite stunning, especially since he
wasted his Monday column trying to row back on that claim.
Still, he's not coming clean, according to
Donald Luskin and
the Chief Brief. But congrats are in order all around.
Michelle Malkin has
a great post on this subject.
Hat Tip:
Marathon Pundit
