{"id":1023,"date":"2010-04-15T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/1023\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:05:59","slug":"the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-%e2%80%98big-tent%e2%80%99-can-be-too-big-%c2%ab-oktrends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/1023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Big Tent\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Can Be Too Big \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00ab OkTrends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big\/\">The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Big Tent\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Can Be Too Big \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00ab OkTrends<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve had this open for over two weeks with the intention of blogging. I think I remember what I wanted to say.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, this shows how the variety of people who vote Democrat is considerably broader than the variety who vote Republican, and I think if you look at their stats and understand some of the politics in the U.S., it&#8217;s clear that this is a source of a lot of the problems.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that I wanted to point to the OkTrends blog, which despite being the blog of a dating website is full of extremely well-done statistical work on a variety of subjects, not to mention incredibly well done information graphics, which is a real rarity. The only thing I wish they&#8217;d added to this post is a note that they are assuming an 18-year-old in their database now will behave like a 28-year-old in their database in 10 years. It may be a good approximation, and it&#8217;s the best they can be expected to do given their data, but it&#8217;s something to note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Big Tent\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Can Be Too Big \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00ab OkTrends &#8211; I&#8217;ve had this open for over two weeks with the intention of blogging. I think I remember what I wanted to say. For one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/1023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[381,684,685],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-graphs","tag-okcupid","tag-uspolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}