Bush and hand counts

[Brad DeLong]

>On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  >The Bush team's new offensive, like all its strategy, springs from an
>>  >early postelection assessment by campaign analysts that Mr. Bush probably
>>  >wouldn't win a state-wide recount by hand.
>>
>>  So what are Jackie Calmes's sources for [that] sentence?
>
>The general view of unnamed sources on the Bush team was my impression. 
>Do you find this reporter untrustworthy?  I thought the WSJ front page
>passed normal j-school muster for sourcing.
>
>Michael

They do indeed...

Brad Delong