Interesting graphs and charts department

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

or they're too stupid to know that Senators are Congressmen.

This has bugged me for a long time but I have given in to it. It's one of those things where common incorrect usage is giving a word a new meaning.

Technically, both Senators and Representatives are Congressmen. But in common speech, a Senator is a Senator and a Representative is a Congressmen. My theory is that because a Senator is more powerful, the Representative wants to have some of that power rub off on them by lumping themselves in with the Senators and referring to themselves as Congressmen.

But the Senators want to keep the Representatives at arms length, so they don't refer to themselves as Congressmen. They are Senators, thank you very much.

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

Technically, both Senators and Representatives are Congressmen.

All humans - men and women - are men. I have just used two completely different words - men and men. Word association is classic junk science reasoning. It assumes a same word can only mean one thing.

Congressmen and Congressmen are two completely different words. And to keep you confused, we also have Congresswomen - who are also Congressmen.

[Clodfobble]

Interesting, I never knew that. You live in (basically) DC, so I'll take your word for it. I'll grant you that Representatives tend to be dumber and crazier than Senators since you've only got to get a small area of idiots to vote for you. Hell, I'd trust most city council people over Representatives, because nobody wants the city council jobs, it's only people who genuinely care (though they may care about opposite things than I do). Representatives all have dreams of moving up the ladder, and will pander to anyone.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Congressmen sounds better than Housers.

[classicman]

Which are you?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by classicman

Which are you?

The realist should be saying "Someone's going to have to wash this glass."

[xoxoxoBruce]

Or nod to the bartender for a refill.

[classicman]

Anyone care to explain what this actually is? I honestly don't get it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's a map of who voted for whom.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's a map of who voted for whom.

Its more than that, isn't it? I believe its also the %'s in the areas.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The key shows 51 % and higher for each candidate. Not states or electoral vote, the popular vote. That why it shows those scattered cities for Clinton in large rural blank areas.

[xoxoxoBruce]

This proves I'm not typical.

[glatt]

It shows rural areas appear to have more land than cities do.

[glatt]

That's cool. I'd love to have a personalized one that had all events from my own life. Milestones, moves, vacations, trips, etc. It would be cool to be able to dive down into a week to see minor events. Data.

[BigV]

down to the week?... compared to? I think I already have this data for the things that I lived. Some are down to the day, birthdays, anniversaries; some are down to the season, some are one time events.

I find the graph confusing.