The Opinionator
If numbers were shouts, Gary Langer's office at ABC News would sound like Yankee Stadium.
Numbers call to him from printouts piled high on the glass-topped coffee table. Stacks of stats in tiny type spill across his desk, bumping the bottoms of two large computer monitors. Over by the window, stray survey pages have drifted to the floor. He'll pick them up someday, but right now, more numbers are calling. They beep into his e-mail inbox; they buzz into his BlackBerry. Questions about numbers keep his phone ringing and his assistants striding in and out with new piles of data.










































