Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Italian Elections

This is a graphic that I found (on politicalbetting.com) about the elections in Italy and the poll results for the popularity of Berlusconi who is running again after his defeat. I think that there are many wrong things with this graph. His pictures are total chart junk, and they are not even just mere chart junk, but even though he really is an awful candidate, they are trying to send a political message--look at him as his popularity goes down and he is looking really sad. Aside from the gratuitous pictures, the poll does not do a good job of labeling it's axes, so it's unclear when those dates are referring to and what those percentages mean. The graph's title, which does nto show up here was also just "is it all over for Silvio?" this is a bad title because it's trying to make fun of the end of his political career, but it's not actually saying anything about what the graph is about. The commentary should be saved for an article rather than for the graph.

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