Fast-forward to mid-term elections. Election upset. Democrat wins against incumbent Republican with the vote split 59 to 41. Wow! And the media crowd goes wild! Landslide! LANDSLIDE! They cannot say it often or loudly enough.
Flash-back. To now. Same split: 59 to 41. Only now it is the percentage of math texts making the approved list in Florida. Somehow, rather than declaring a landslide, media seems obsessed with the 41. It is as if it were an election where the Democrat lost. Maybe it IS a proxy. Whatever it may be it is most certainly a disservice. If media retained any objectivity they would now (and always would have) examine the books ON THE LIST to see if they are anything more than the math equivalent of the comic book version of David Copperfield. You know. All pictures. Lots of distractions. Almost no math.
After all, doesn't a landslide touch on just a little math? Shouldn't we ALL know how to compare those two numbers? Consistently?
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