“It seems that in public discourse, he who makes the first logical assertion based on any data at all has the high ground. McCain says Obama plans to raise taxes (data) and that raising taxes during tough economic times is bad because Herbert Hoover did it (logic) therefore Obama’s tax plan is bad for the economy. Obama doesn’t come back with any arguments that raising taxes isn’t necessarily bad for the economy. Instead he just shows different data, namely that 95% of people will get a tax cut.