What is going on here?

http://xkcd.com/1127/

There is so much information I can't even begin.

10/29/2012 10:54:22 AM

I'm guessing that's why he put a key in the upper right explaining it.

10/29/2012 11:17:24 AM

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"I'm guessing that's why he put a key in the upper right explaining it."

10/29/2012 11:25:15 AM

I'm sure that knowledge of "branches going in represent new members of congress" is the type understanding necessary to understand the infographic, which I obviously didn't previously posses.

10/29/2012 11:39:26 AM

I'm sorely tempted to post the full-size infographic, but I'll just let you know that the Rethugs have been good at whipping their Representatives into voting for far-right economic policies, so much that there are no more "center-right" members of the House, and about as many "far right" members as "far left" and "left" members combined; additionally the swings in both chambers are basically gains or losses of "center left" Democrats.

10/29/2012 8:41:42 PM

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"there are no more "center-right" members of the House"

Sure there are, they're just Democrats.

10/30/2012 7:23:04 AM

^ for the record, the chart shows that there were Democrats right of center up until recently, and now there are none left. Is their methodology perfect? Of course not.

10/30/2012 8:54:24 AM

Here's more info. about their methodology: http://voteview.com/dwnomin.htm

Anyway, it's not that all the "center-right" Representatives are Democrats, it's that there aren't any center-right Representatives now: In fact, up until the most recent election, there were center-right Representatives in the Democratic Party, and until 1994, there were also center-left Representatives in the Republican Party; there were even economically right-wing (but not far-right) members of the Democratic Party during the 1960s, when the parties were divided more by region than by ideology.

10/30/2012 5:22:47 PM

That's not really an effective graphic for anything but a poster on a wall.

10/30/2012 7:04:50 PM

That's not really an effective graphic for anything but a poster on a wall.

10/30/2012 8:47:57 PM

xkcd is so darn funny. i like the one where the one guy says "athiests are as dumb as religious ppl" and the other guy says: "at least u find way to feel superior to both"

11/1/2012 11:33:03 AM