Chart of the day.

We're number none!



Hat tip to GraphJam.

Chart of the day.

Via GraphJam...



One way to cut budget deficits is to cut the justice deficit.

Map of the day.

Via Think Progress...

Well, that's one reason.

Maybe not even the best one, but certainly sufficient. John Amato...

Lindsey Graham compares America to Greece which is why he shouldn't be taken seriously

I admit that just looking at him has always worked for me.

Chart of the day.

Via Meteor Blades…

Politics 101

Professor Bernstein gets first things first...

One of the very first things to know about politics in the United States is how unfathomably big the nation is, and how having enough people agree with you to pack a room doesn't actually mean much, as far as political impact is concerned.

As a veteran of innumerable packed rooms of little or no ultimate consequence, I can confirm this insight empirically.

What Nate Silver said…

…here, about…

…the largely irrelevant news about Haley Barbour not running for president.

It means no more than the apparently impending announcement from Ron Paul.

Neither of these men will ever be President of the United States.

That's just one reason I'm proud to be an American.

Chart of the day.

Via Outside The Beltway...

Map of the day.

Via the New York Times...

This map shows each state re-sized in proportion to the relative influence of the individual voters who live there. The numbers indicate the total delegates to the Electoral College from each state, and how many eligible voters a single delegate from each state represents.

(It clicks a bunch bigger.)

Hat tip to Nicholas Beaudrot at Donkeylicious.