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more about #chartsgraphs more comments → Claire Buoyant: This proves that only dinosaurs listen to rock music. #america more » Rozelle’s Bagman: So do the Alberta oil sands explain the annoying persistance of Rush? #america more » allyzay: Does this have anything to do with this? #america more » Unsolicited Advice: Conclusion: great rock songs used to be made of American light sweet crude. #america more » skahammer: Was 1985 really that bad for music? #america more » flossy: Alternately, this could read as a graph of US Oil Production vs. Cultural Relevance of Rolling Stone Magazine. #america more » oneinsixbillion: Truthers claim the U.S. government was complicit in the largest act of terror on American soil. Birthers think Obama was born overseas. Now, in a fair... more » ellagood: well, good. i'm glad my president wasn't born here...because most of the people born here are complete assholes. esp those who have held/hold office. more » Mediahohoho: Was there a choice for "Bush was incompetent and unfocused on national security because he took more vacation time than any U.S. President in his firs... more » Trai_Dep: What's wryly amusing is that their crazies are half again crazier than we are, over "our" issue. Then they go over to "their" issue and prove themselv... more » Niko Bellic: I love that "Independent" thing. Imagine asking someone "are you Presbyterian or Episcopalian?" and then writing down "Independent", because they were... more » onebadclam: No Hitler questions? more » pleppy: In their defense, at least 40% of those who believe that the president was not born in the United States also do not know that Hawaii is a state. more » ChampagneSherpa: Yeah, it's not like George Bush got personally handed a memo that said "Bin Laden determined to attack inside United States" and did nothing. And the... more » WhiteMan'sBourbon: On a hunch, I just did a quick Google search, and a poll in 2004 found that, at that time, roughly the same number of Republicans (62%) believed Sadda... more » -
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The Shake, Rattle, Decline and Fall of American Empire
This graph is the key to everything and it will soon be a book from HarperCollins. ("Everything" means Jann Wenner, Baby Boomers, mass culture, and the death of liberal consensus and middle class stability.) [Overthinking It via Colin via Maura.] -
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Definitive "Our Crazies Are Less Crazy Than Your Crazies" Proof
Public Policy Polling just keeps revealing how stupid, paranoid, and misled the American electorate is. Here are some results from their new national poll on conspiracy theories that aren't true. More » -
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Data Prove Stereotypes
Americans are short and fertile. The French spend all their time drinking and eating and sleeping. The Japanese work all day and never sleep. It's proven by science! More » -
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Congressional Repubs Win Media War
Watching the cable news, one might get the impression that Republicans aren't a completely powerless minority party. They're still opinionating like it's 2004 out there! More » -
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Don't Even Bother Voting
God, remember when this seemed like another tossup? All the "insiders" say this one's Obama's. Smart Republicans are looking for good 2012 candidates. Over at InTrade, traders are betting heavily on an Obama victory. As you can see, after an odd September dip (one that wasn't relfected in other market prediction sites), Obama's up to nearly 74. [InTrade] -
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The Visual History of the Longest Primaries Ever
Today, the Associated Press announced that Barack Obama is officially the Democratic nominee for President. Which means that the Hillary Clinton campaign is finished. It's been a long, long time. Two years, actually! We first tracked the history of the Clinton campaign back in April, when it was just probably doomed. Now it's time to revisit that history, this time with a big fancy chart. The data points are Barack Obama's closing prices on political futures betting site InTrade. The higher the closing price, the more likely investors think his nomination is (with 100 being dead-on certainty). Click to enlarge the chart, and to re-read our April history explaining the significance of the dates mentioned. Now updated with relevant "May" and "Early June" information! More » -
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Bittergate's Toll
Last week (or a century ago), Barack Obama got in a bunch of trouble for making a "gaffe", which is a inside joke/cliche word political journalists use when a candidate accidentally (and inelegantly) says something he or she actually believes, and then the journalists beat up on the candidate for a month or so over it. His gaffe was that he said white blue-collar people seek solace in cultural identifiers like religion and guns when the economy fails them. Regardless of whether you find that to be a condescending notion, it seems harder to argue with his statement that these voters are "bitter," because everyone in America is "bitter" these days. Still, it became known as "bittergate," and it topped the headlines last week just as Hillary's snipergate did the week before. Obama is an elitist, we were told, over and over and over again. Elitist! And latte-sipping! Someone (Dowd?) probably called him "effete," too. After a full week of hammering this point home, that Obama is elitist, Hillary pulled ahead of Obama in the national polls for the first time in months, finally. She pulled ahead one point, on Saturday. And on Sunday, Obama was back ahead by 2. Pennsylvania's primaries are tomorrow (FINALLY THANK JESUS) but they won't solve this horrible horrible mess. More »
