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tkmorris

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21. I may be missing something, but...

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #20)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 04:24 PM

Feb 2016

The only site I see you linked to in that post with the graphs is the Washington Post, and that link appears to go nowhere in any case.

Edited to add: I see that that second chart, which may be linked to the WP, lists the author's source as "author's elaboration from Twitter data". If it is possible to be less scientific than that I am not sure how. This only serves to illustrate the point I was making, which is the utter futility of trying to objectively measure where a politician falls on some arbitrary scale. Not to mention the inherent problem of trying to accurately illustrate anyone's overall philosophy by placing them on a single axis scale, like numbers on a number line.

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