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octoberlib

(14,971 posts) Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:21 AM Oct 2012

XKCD'S A History of the United States Congress Partisan & Ideological Makeup

http://xkcd.com/1127/

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XKCD'S A History of the United States Congress Partisan & Ideological Makeup (Original Post) octoberlib Oct 2012 OP

Wow. silverweb Oct 2012 #1

Nice synopsis. defacto7 Oct 2012 #2

Notice there is not a single 'center-right' Republican left in the House muriel_volestrangler Oct 2012 #3

k & r surrealAmerican Oct 2012 #4

Outstanding graphic. Thanks for sharing. nt Comrade_McKenzie Oct 2012 #5

K&R (nt) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2012 #6

silverweb

(16,402 posts)

1. Wow.

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:33 AM

Oct 2012

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]This deserves very careful study. Bookmarked for after work.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

2. Nice synopsis.

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:46 AM

Oct 2012

Good to see in visible images.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,355 posts)

3. Notice there is not a single 'center-right' Republican left in the House

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:58 AM

Oct 2012

(nor, for that matter, a 'Liberal Republican', or 'Conservative Democrat', though those two types were always rarer), and the 'far right' is now over 2/3rds of the Republicans in the House, which is unprecedented (and the Democrats have never been dominated by the 'far left' in the House; there's a bunch of post-Civil War segregationist senators that are marked as 'far left', but I think 'extremist' might be a better term for them - I can hardly see them calling themselves 'socialists').