Political geography
January 11, 2008Here’s a shocker: On Electoral Compass USA, which plots your views and compares them to the presidential candidates, I’m where the little pencil is pointing.
That’s right. The top left corner. Imagine that.
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One Response to “Political geography”
Not that it would be easy to calculate, but I’d love to see how the r2 of this distribution has changed over the last hundred years.
I’m willing to bet that in the era before blindly partisan politics, the graph would have been much more randomly distributed than it is now.
Twenty years from now, a straight line from upper left to bottom right.
By James Cronen on Jan 11, 2008