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The Romney campaign’s chart fail

By Ezra Klein, Published: July 5, 2012 at 11:33 amE-mail the writer

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I hosted the Rachel Maddow show on Monday, and one of the segments focused on how the Mitt Romney campaign is not so good at charts. In particular, the Venn diagram is giving them some trouble. It’s as Wonkbloggy a topic as I can imagine, so here’s the clip:

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