Graphs for Democrats: December 2010

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Breaking the Filibuster

Link to this graph: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/we_dont_need_to_fix_partisansh.html

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

An Ominous Rise -- Global Warming -- CO2 Level

Link to this graph: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon-graphic.html?ref=earth

Note: Charles David Keeling was a registered Republican! A quote from the article:

In an interview in La Jolla, Dr. Keeling’s widow, Louise, said that if her husband had lived to see the hardening of the political battle lines over climate change, he would have been dismayed.

“He was a registered Republican,” she said. “He just didn’t think of it as a political issue at all.”

Link to above quote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon.html

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Congressional Seats -- 2010 Census

Link to this map: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-data.php

Interactive map is here: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/index.php

Monday, December 20, 2010

1930s America Favored Big Government Spending

Link to this graph: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1810/public-opinion-great-depression-compared-with-now

Home Equity Distribution by State

Link to this graph: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/12/corelogic-108-million-us-properties.html

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Percent of Estates Paying Estate Tax

Link to this graph: http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/blog/_archives/2010/12/14/4703631.html

Budget Cost of Tax and Spending Compromise

Link to this table: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/mark_zandi_on_the_tax-cut_deal.html

What the President Got and What Republicans Will Get. . .

. . .if/when tax cuts for the rich are extended (over the next 10 years).

Link to this graph: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/will_obama_make_good_on_vow_to.html

. . .but if the tax cuts are not extended, the situation is as follows:

Link to this graph: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/the_white_houses_case_for_the.html

Note the scaling of the y-axis is different in the above graphs -- however, in both cases the cuts in blue total $238 billion.

Unemployed Workers per Job Opening

Link to this graph: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/fewer-jobless-workers-per-opening-in-june/?hp

Number of Lobbyists per Member of Congress

How many lobbyists are there per congressman?

25.8.
The rate of lobbyists per congressman is currently 25.8, considering there are 432 congressmen (data provided by the Office of the Clerk website) and 11,140 lobbyists in Washington (data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics). In addition, the US House of Representatives is the top lobbying agency, with 10,833 reports filed in 2010 – against 10,727 by the US Senate.

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Link to this data: http://www.numberof.net/number-of-lobbyists-per-congressman/