Pop Quiz

by Jonathan Zasloff
Politics

Listen up, class!

In the last 48 hours:

1) Rick Santorum has compared Barack Obama to Hitler while comparing prenatal testing to eugenics;

2) Mitt Romney has warned that cutting government spending could hurt the economy.

Two questions, class:

Which one will be a more controversial statement within the Republican Party?

Which candidate will reverse his statement within the next week?

You have five minutes.

[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]

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Jonathan Zasloff

Jonathan Zasloff is a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles.