An interesting graph of Repub candidates from Nate Silver of 538 blog

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Sun Feb-06-11 10:25 AM
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An interesting graph of Repub candidates from Nate Silver of 538 blog

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/a-graphical-overview-of-the-2012-republican-field/?partner=rss&emc=rss

The bigger the circle, the stronger the candidate according to Intrade.

There is almost exactly one year to go until the Iowa caucuses, which are tentatively scheduled to take place on Feb. 6, 2012. No mainstream Republican candidate has yet declared for the presidency, but that is sure to change soon, perhaps as soon as there is a lull in the news � something we have not had in weeks, because of the Tucson shootings and the Egyptian protests.

The Republican field may eventually grow to be fairly large, so it would be useful to examine the landscape through a technique I have used in the past: locating the positions of the potential candidates spatially.

One dimension is obvious: we can classify the candidates from left to right, from relatively more moderate to relatively more conservative. But another dimension that is often salient in the primaries, and perhaps especially so for Republicans next year, is what we might think of as the insider/outsider axis: whether the candidate is viewed as part of the Republican establishment, or as a critic of it.

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Sun Feb-06-11 10:33 AM
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1. What do the different colors mean?

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Bunny

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Sun Feb-06-11 10:33 AM
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2. Do the colors mean anything?

Edited on Sun Feb-06-11 10:35 AM by Bunny

Duh. Guess I should have read the article:

Finally, the color of each circle reflects the region the candidate is from: blue for the Northeast, red for the South, green for the Midwest, and yellow for the West.

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onehandle

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Sun Feb-06-11 10:34 AM
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3. I don't need to see this chart to call it for mittens.

He'll lose against Obama by a hair.

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