Three miscellaneous charts

Kevin DrumJanuary 5, 2023 – 10:46 amJanuary 5, 2023 – 12:01 pm17 Comments

I am bored. Kevin McCarthy just lost his 7th vote for Speaker, amassing his usual 201 votes. Matt Gaetz switched his vote from Byron Donalds to Donald Trump. Here are a few miscellaneous charts to keep you entertained while we continue this dreary process.

17 thoughts on “Three miscellaneous charts”

golack January 5, 2023 – 10:53 am at

Lucy and football?

Honest, it will be different this time....
Justin January 5, 2023 – 10:55 am at

And another mass shooting / murder suicide in Utah! Is this responsible for all the extra murders? Gun nuts doing mass murder then suicide? We need a chart.
1. J. Frank Parnell January 5, 2023 – 11:06 am at
  
  If only they would do the suicide thing first.
J. Frank Parnell January 5, 2023 – 11:07 am at

Looking at the Kevin McCarthy vote chart, one is reminded of the definition of insanity.
Steve_OH January 5, 2023 – 11:29 am at

I cannot fathom the "Number of Friends" chart. What do Low, Medium, and High mean?
1. cld January 5, 2023 – 11:33 am at
  
  Short, normal and stoned.
2. different_name January 5, 2023 – 11:51 am at
  
  I wanna know, too.
  
  Number of Friends episodes played per day, by channel number?
3. ChicagoGMan January 5, 2023 – 12:03 pm at
  
  That is just the percentage of people with a "Low" number of friends - meaning 0-2, etc. So people are reporting less friends now than 30 years ago.
Rattus Norvegicus January 5, 2023 – 11:33 am at

He's lost the eighth ballot too. It just won't be official for a bit.
cld January 5, 2023 – 11:52 am at

Chart of candy bar size changes since January 2014,

https://i.redd.it/k6c0qbpt61y81.png

and this on top of how shrunk they already were.

Except for, ooh, Jaffa cakes. What the hell are Jaffa cakes?
1. Salamander January 5, 2023 – 12:10 pm at
  
  Glad you asked! Per wikipedia:
  
  Jaffa Cakes are a cake introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common form of Jaffa cakes are circular, 2+1⁄8 inches (54 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavoured jam and a coating of chocolate.
  
  Now I want one. Better yet, a whole box.
  1. cld January 5, 2023 – 1:19 pm at
    
    They sound ok.
Joseph Harbin January 5, 2023 – 12:23 pm at

The default assumption among media about Biden is that he is "historically unpopular." For example:

NPR
The Hill
FiveThirtyEight
CNN
WaPo
NY Mag
Others

Based on the chart above, it looks like his approval is historically normal.
marcel proust January 5, 2023 – 12:33 pm at

The last chart could easily be more informative with just a bit more complication:

1) Include bars for the top 3 vote-getters in each round.
2) Make it a time-series bar chart by adding a dimension for votes x round of voting in the last 5-8 Congresses; this would require rotating the graph 30-45 degrees so that a z-axis going off to the left is visible. 4 candidates received votes in 2021 (2 each recvd 1 vote), because some blue-dog dems had promised to oppose Pelosi, but she, being Nancy Pelosi, nevertheless won easily (or at least it looked easy).
cephalopod January 5, 2023 – 1:35 pm at

The friends chart reminds me of this joke: Jesus' greatest miracle was having a dozen close friends in his 30s.
1. J. Frank Parnell January 5, 2023 – 2:44 pm at
  
  Well, actually only 11 unless you count Mary Magdalene. Judas and Jesus had a bit of a falling out, you could say.
painedumonde January 5, 2023 – 8:36 pm at

Heh.

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