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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (64135)5/7/2008 2:30:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 543236
 
Emulating their general example, doesn't mean you have to emulate them with precision. A politician would be prone to say something like that if his only plan relevant to the statement is to encourage more nuclear power, without having any specific plan for X number of plants, or even X percentage of electricity from nuclear.

Think of people who argue that some other country with "single payer" pays half as much for health care, and uses that to argue for "single payer" here. I would submit that many of the people who use such an argument don't literally and exactly think that we will cut our health care spending in half by the change, only that it will go down. The example is of the general idea, "single payer = local cost", more than it is any highly specific claim about how much lower the cost would be. (The fact that I'm not so sure about even the "go down" part, isn't relevant to the analogy).

Then you also have the other point the one that I illustrated with the "Man on Mars" analogy. He might not think that anywhere near 700 new plants are needed.

Combine that with some level of doubt about the 700+ claim itself. (Its not unreasonable, but it makes a number of assumptions that may not turn out to be true).

Considering all of those points and you get "McCain did not call for 700+ new nuclear plants".
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