Everyone knows that politicians will portray what they feel constituents want expressed in terms favorable to the politician's agenda. Here is recent example:

RACI-CAUGHT
Bush Campaign Chair Lies About Kerry fuel economy Plan

Speaking of swing states: Bush presidential campaign chair Marc
Racicot told a group of Michigan voters that the state could "lose
105,000 jobs" under John Kerry's proposal to raise the average fuel
economy standards of America's vehicle fleet roughly 50 percent by
2015. The charge was calculated to help shift the balance in a swing
state where Bush is narrowly trailing Kerry and automotive jobs are
prized. Trouble is, it's not true. The information on which
Racicot based the statistic was not a study but a brief "working
paper" by professor Andrew Kleit. It had been subjected to neither
peer review nor independent analysis, and, most egregiously, it
claimed that 104,000 jobs would be lost not in Michigan but
nationwide. When a revised version of the paper appeared in a
peer-reviewed journal, all job statistics had been removed. Lately,
the Bush campaign has upped the phantom job loss figure to 143,000;
when asked to find a study supporting that number, campaign staffer
Chris Paolino replied, "I wish I could because it's a better number
for us."

straight to the source: Michigan Land Use Institute, Great Lakes
Bulletin News Service, Stephanie Rudolph, 17 Jun 2004
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