I suggest Romney (as well as many other of us) ought to read The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives:
"It may come as an epiphany merely to recognize the ubiquitous role of random processes in our lives; the true power of the theory of random processes, however, lies in the fact that once we understand the nature of random processes, we can alter the way we perceive the events that happen around us."
Leonard Mlodinow, pp. 217-18.
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