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Yeah, but what about “socialism”?!

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It just be raining charts up in here.

More at Dave Gilson’s “Charts: Republican Platforms, Then and Now”

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This Single Chart Explains a Lot About the GOP Convention

(via NY Mag)

(Source: Mother Jones)

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Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay stance seems to be backfiring. But that’s not stopping one congressman from launching a campaign against LGBT activists, whom he says “resort to hate.”

(chart photo via CNBC’s Ryan Ruggiero, who’s all over it.)

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trackinganation:

A history of the increasingly correlated activities of Anonymous and Wikileaks

Chart: Contributions from military members to presidential candidates.

Not quite what you expected, eh? Full story here.

Chart of the Day: Why we hate Twitter (conclusion: we don’t, really). Now if only someone would do this for Tumblr.

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James O’Keefe’s Life Accomplishments Chartified: Pimps, Lies, and Videotape

Now that he’s gone and done committed straight-up voter fraud (in a GOP primary), we thought it’d be fun to revisit the right-wing provocateur’s resume. Good times!

The embiggened version lives here.

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How much GOPers would chop rich people’s taxes.

Via Kevin Drum:

As the chart [above] shows, conservatives are right to believe that Romney isn’t to be trusted. Sure, he lowers tax rates on millionaires by 9 percentage points, and you may think that’s a pretty sweet deal for the rich. But come on. Newt Gingrich would lower them by 24 percentage points. (No, that’s not a typo.) Rick Perry lowers them by 20 percentage points. Herman Cain lowers them by 15 points. Frankly, Romney is hardly even trying here.

Also, except for 9-9-9, all these plans show no or little tax cut for the lowest marginal rates. Stay classy!

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The Notorious Kims: Lil’ Kim vs. Kim Jong Il. From our May/June 2003 issue, by MoJo vet (now Rolling Stone politics reporter) Tim Dickinson.

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So You Want to Buy an Election?

If you have a ton of cash and a political agenda, it’s easier than ever to make powerful friends and influence people. Here’s a handy how-to guide to the complex, cash-drenched world of federal campaign finance.

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What a chart taught us today: If “doomsday” defense cuts go through, the US’s number of deployed nukes could go UP. Wait, what?

Click to embiggen.

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Number of articles with the word ‘inequality’ in U.S. newspapers - October 2010 through October 2011.

Peter Dreier: Occupy Wall Street: Changing the Topic

We could take a tiny bit of credit, but that’s not the point: The inequality is the point.

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Iraq on $256 Million a Day

Last Friday, President Obama announced that the remaining American troops in Iraq will leave the country by the end of 2011. Here’s a quick reminder of the war’s price tag.

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