Saturday, August 30, 2008

Remember, he's one of the "smart" ones

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru, going into Huckabee territory on pro-Palin talking points --

According to the Latest Census Figures [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Wassila turns out to have more people than Delaware—and it has been growing fast. (I can't get the links to work right now but it's easy to look up.)


It is easy to look up. Wasilla, spell it right, The 2007 population estimate for Wasilla city, Alaska is 9,780. The 2007 population estimate for Delaware is 864,764.

How could you have any sense of what the US looks like and get such basic things wrong?

UPDATE: He corrected the post.

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