Graph of the Day

Filed in National by on August 9, 2009

This is a pretty amazing correlation. By watching a conservatively biased television network, Republicans reinforce their own opinions and then become more and more outlandish in their advocacy of those opinions, which in turn makes them all the more toxic to the electorate at large, which isolates them further so they all seek comfort again by watching Fox News to once again reinforce their beliefs….

Now this is a vicious circle I like.

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  1. The wingularity is near!

  2. anonone says:

    Those lines aren’t correlated, inversely or otherwise. Do a regression analysis.

  3. Delaware Dem says:

    I am not a scientist or a statistician, but what I am saying is there looks to be a pattern there.

    Calling Unstable Isotope.

  4. Delaware Republican says:

    The graphs which matter are near 10% long term unemployment, almost $2 trillion annual deficit and impneding Medicare/Social Security Trust Fund failures.

    I don’t blame you for trying to avoid Obama’s failures but reality is scary.

    Mike Protack

  5. Delaware Dem says:

    No, your reality is scary. I am sure any intolerant insecure conservative is scared to death right now. And that pleases me.

  6. cassandra_m says:

    It’s also weird that they only went back to 2006 — this data likely exists all they way back to the creation of Fox News, which would tell a more meaningful story. This is a great graphic, tho and will likely get alot of play even though it may not support the claims being made for it.

  7. Pigsfly says:

    Hmmmm….what’s the purchase rate on guns and machetes?

  8. Joanne Christian says:

    Guns vary–machetes we bartered for in Honduras (actually a gift), in exchange for pulling some teeth.

  9. There’s probably not enough data there to make a real correlation.

  10. Pigsfly says:

    I’m beginning to think there were a lot of graphs on the Delaware bar!

  11. anonone says:

    There is definitely not enough data there to make a statistically significant correlation and the data that is there does not show even a hint of correlation. This graph is a fine example of innumeracy and chart abuse.

  12. anononthisone says:

    Protack is still trying to pin Bush’s failures on Obama’s efforts to fix them. Pathetic. I can’t WAIT until the economy is improving in a year or two and yet another line of excuses come along…just as they did when Clinton came in a fixed Reagan and Bush I’s stupidity. Voodoo economics will continually hurt our economy until people realize that it is simply not feasible.

  13. anonie says:

    So Protack is trying to blame social security and medicaid on Obama? What a complete idiot. It’s desperation, like these redneck white people disrupting town hall meetings on health care. I suppose that is the strategy. Still bitter over effing up the country and getting tossed out of office all across the country, this is all they got. Pathetic.

    In other news, aggressive stimulus spending by governments helped the world avoid a second Great Depression but full economic recovery will take two years or more, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said today.

  14. traci l. graham sands says:

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    AT ONE TIME I LIVED VERY CLOSE TO DELAWEARE, AND I WORKED IN DELAWEARE, TOO, AT ONE TIME, AND I LOVED IT, HAVE LOTS OF GREAT MEMORIES OF DELAWEAR, AND ITS PEOPLE, TOO………..

    ITS A BEAUTIFUL STATE, AND I HAVE RELATIVES WHOM LIVE THERE BY THE NAME OF WILLIAMS TOO, WHOM LOVE DELAWEARE…………..

    who ever said that sex sex married people “stay” in the place in which they are married any way????????????????

    how many are acually “using” same sex marriage for certain finacial reasons, or successor reasons anyway?
    if its legal, its legal;;;;;;;;; but NOT MANDATORY…….NOR NESSESARY,EITHER.

    DELAWEAR IS STILL A GREAT STATE, ITS ALWAYS “FALSE HYPE” THAT RUINS EVERYTHING.