For anyone following events in Puerto Rico, this was the year, of course, that Puerto Rico formally voted to reject its status quo identity as a commonwealth of the US while simultaneously voting in asgovernor a leader of the PPD, the party most closely identified with defending the status quo.
"Of course they add up, " Mr. Romney replied, adding that his credentials in making the numbers work included his work balancing budgets as a governor and leader of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.