Years ago, a city editor in the newsroom taped a piece of paper on the monitor on my desk with the proper spelling of the city’s mayor. I consistently misspelled it. The New York Times should do the electronic equivalent for whichever of its writers report on the HispanicLatino vote this year.
Individuals across the land who put out a daily newspaper 365 times a year make as many mistakes. One of those 365 mistakes is when a newspaper gets wrong the share of the HispanicLatino vote that George W. Bush received in 2004. It was not, as the Times said in a story last week, 44 percent but 40 percent. Aside from the editorial integrity involved, the difference is of interest in this year’s election.