Romney Won’t Participate In Pre-Super Tuesday Debate

Mitt Romney will not participate in the Republican presidential primary debate on March 1 in Georgia. ”Governor Romney will be spending a lot of time campaigning in Georgia and Ohio ahead of Super Tuesday,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul emails. “With eight other states voting on March 6th, we will be campaigning in other parts of the country and unable to schedule the CNN Georgia debate. We have participated in 20 debates, including 8 from CNN.”

Occam’s Razor

To quote Captain Spock in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: "An ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." This is basically the theory of Occam's Razor, the principle that generally recommends that, from among competing hypotheses, selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions usually provides the correct one, and that the simplest explanation will be the most plausible until evidence is presented to prove it false. With that in mind (click through for a bigger version):