Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Republicans pretend to have "Delegate Diversity"
You see this graph here? It comes from the "Delegate Diversity" section of the Republican National Convention's website. It bears the heading, "Percentage Increase Of Ethnically Diverse Delegates between the 2000-2004 National Conventions."
Note how in this graph, the Democrats appear to be woefully behind as far as their diverse delegates are concerned. They're sitting at a roughly 20% increase, compared with the unbelievable 70% increase of the Republicans. Worse still, this is all technically true! How could those Democrats have gotten so far behind the times?
Simple: this graph measures the increase, not the percentage of actual delegates. In other words, since the Democrats have actually invited people of color to the convention prior to 2004, their overall increase isn't that high--from about 33% to 40%. But according to the second graph on that same site, the Republicans have increased their minority delegates from 10% to a whopping 17%, also referred to as considerably less than the 40% of people of color present at the Democratic National Convention.
Knowing this, you really should go over and check out the RNC diversity site. It's seriously funny--and it's a wonderful example of how you can appear to prove anything with statistics, when you're really lying through your teeth.
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Note how in this graph, the Democrats appear to be woefully behind as far as their diverse delegates are concerned. They're sitting at a roughly 20% increase, compared with the unbelievable 70% increase of the Republicans. Worse still, this is all technically true! How could those Democrats have gotten so far behind the times?
Simple: this graph measures the increase, not the percentage of actual delegates. In other words, since the Democrats have actually invited people of color to the convention prior to 2004, their overall increase isn't that high--from about 33% to 40%. But according to the second graph on that same site, the Republicans have increased their minority delegates from 10% to a whopping 17%, also referred to as considerably less than the 40% of people of color present at the Democratic National Convention.
Knowing this, you really should go over and check out the RNC diversity site. It's seriously funny--and it's a wonderful example of how you can appear to prove anything with statistics, when you're really lying through your teeth.
