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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:38 PM Aug 2012

They're starting to close the fundraising gap between Obama and Romney

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They're starting to close the fundraising gap between Obama and Romney (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2012 OP

This is closing the gap? CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2012 #1

Well that's good! I guess... Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #2

The "gap" doesn't even close if the lines meet jberryhill Aug 2012 #4

That graph is horrible jberryhill Aug 2012 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,534 posts)

1. This is closing the gap?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:41 PM

Aug 2012

Damn, not fast enough.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)

2. Well that's good! I guess...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:41 PM

Aug 2012

Better, right? Still looks like a big gap though.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. The "gap" doesn't even close if the lines meet

Reply to Curtland1015 (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:47 PM

Aug 2012

Because the graph appears to be each months' fundraising total, and not a cumulative figure.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. That graph is horrible

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:46 PM

Aug 2012

What do the lines represent?

Obviously, they aren't the cumulative funds raised, or the top line would not have a negative slope.

If they are funds raised per month, then the overall fundraising gap is a finite discrete integral sum.

The Y axis is not labeled, and the numbers at the bottom seem to reflect the difference in each months' fundraising total, but not the cumulative fundraising gap.

This is a bizarrely constructed graph.

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