Posted: 09/10/2012 3:57 pm Updated: 09/10/2012 4:02 pm

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) jabbed Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Monday over his botched marathon time, calling it the latest example of Ryan's inability to give specifics when it comes to numbers.

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Reid said Ryan's problem with "fictitious math" also applies to his inability to answer questions about tax loopholes that he and Mitt Romney insist they want to close.

"See, when [Ryan and Romney] start talking about how fast they run a marathon or holes they want to plug, they have to actually give the specs. They refuse to do that," Reid said. "Do they want to get rid of charitable donations? Do they want to get rid of the deduction for buying a home? They will not say so."

They won't give specific numbers because they're "afraid" they won't add up, he said. "So they give you this Ryan math, this Romney math."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/harry-reid-paul-ryan_n_1871625.html

“I’d like to take a minute and apply the Ryan math to my marathon times,” the Nevada senator said. “Using the Ryan math, my time would not have been a world’s record, but within minutes of a world record. I could have made the Olympic team. Using Ryan math, I would have been superb. Well, Ryan math doesn’t work in marathons because you know what … you can always check someone’s math and his math doesn’t work for running a marathon or anything else.”

http://www.rgj.com/viewart/20120910/NEWS19/309100041/Sen-Harry-Reid-mocks-Paul-Ryan-marathon-time-math