You are being hoisted by your own petard. Lying with statistics is a very common thing and it is, in fact a cliche. I'm surprised you brought up the crime thing

You are being hoisted by your own petard. Lying with statistics is a very common thing and it is, in fact a cliche. I'm surprised you brought up the crime thing. There are so many problems with this. Also, note, one way to reduce "crime" is to just make many crimes legal but it does not change normal people's view of crime. What kind of statistics were used to decide that Iowa would go for Harris with an 18 point jump?