The Election—IV by Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Election—IV

November 8, 2012

Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Here is the Romney strategy: since you don’t like what you’ve got, vote for what you haven’t got. Whatever it is you haven’t got, it is better than what you’ve got. That was supposed to be enough to secure election after what we’ve got—Obama’s apparent economic failure. But the Romney campaign is taking what-you-haven’t-got-ism to new heights of what-you-mustn’t-know-ism.

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