Poll Graphic on Front of CNN.com

[quam]

I thought this graphic on the front of cnn.com interesting.

Does Bush's percentage before 49% state 59%? If so, is there much difference on the line graph between 49% and 59% for Bush? Is there more of a difference between Kerry's 44% and 47%? Should there not be more of a spread, visually, for 10% than 3%?

Help. How is my vision?

[quam]

1. Updated the Image

Sorry, I initially linked to the incorrect url. The image is on the cnn.com server.

[TrueAmerican]

2. You're right

the graph is nothing but whoring for Bush.

[jefferson_dem]

3. scale is way fucked up.

[GreenPoet64]

4. You are RIGHT !! Look at the 1% nader at the bottom . . .

It appears each color block is 5%. Bush should have dropped 2 colored blocks,not a fraction. Write CNN.

[sugargoose]

5. It has to be 50%--he was NEVER 59% n/t

[fujiyama]

6. It is very deceptive

Not surprising. These people are trying to change the outcome.

Fuckers.

[gulliver]

7. No graphic there now. Maybe they are fixing it! n/t

[HFishbine]

8. 52%

Was the CNN/Gallup poll of 10/24.

It's certainly a crummy graph. Looks like a horizontal line between the last two points on the Bush graph even though he went down 3 points, whereas Kerry's 3-point rise is represented.

[Still_Loves_John]

9. Oh, I figured it out

It's a perspective thing. Look at Nader. He has one percent all the way through, but his line is going down a little bit. The graph isn't two dimensional--it's like its written on the side of a block and one edge of the block is facing away a little bit. It skews the way the lines look.

[quam]

10. New Graph Posted - Did >We< Make a Difference?

Looks like a correction was made by CNN.com, someone must have noticed. The lines appear to be more to scale and Bush's 59% modified to 52%.

That is a bit more accurate to me, what do you think?

[IronLionZion]

11. new pic, probably because of you

you cought them and they changed it!

[GreenPoet64]

13. Very cool . . .

I sent an email to CNN earlier tonight. Just checked back to see if they changed things. WOW. What a difference. Thank you to the original poster for bringing this to our attention!!

[atre]

12. It looks like 49% to me... but they may have changed the image.

nm