I didn't say his intentions were to mislead, and, unlike the Slashdot crowd that's mulling this over, I don't think he's got any particular candidate he's trying to twist the statistics in favor of. But I just have a problem with distilling very tenuous, fuzzy statistics down to a little website image that says "Kerry: 298, Bush: 231." It's about six too many levels of abstraction and extrapolation, and unless you drill down to all of his qualifiers and disclaimers about the "fuzzy" data, you might think he's actually got better data than someone else. All he's really doing is over-simplifying and making judgement calls when most responsible statisticians concede that no real judgement can be made. It's surely a harmless oversimplification, but it still irks me. Not that I'd have any problem with a 298-231 Kerry victory.

Tangentially, the electoral college blows.