{"id":3886,"date":"2016-06-21T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2016-06-21T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:25:28","slug":"graph-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/06\/21\/graph-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week \u2014 Campaign Cash On Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Secrets maintains a list of top-tier Congressional members by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/overview\/topraise.php?cycle=2016&amp;display=A&amp;view=topcash&amp;memb=H&amp;sort=D\">campaign cash on hand<\/a>. They also have a summary page for Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pres16\/candidate.php?id=N00023864\">Donald Trump<\/a>. Here is what it looks like when you combine the cash on hand variable from both pages:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3887\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3887 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand-1024x764.png\" alt=\"top fifty cash on hand\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand-1024x764.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2016\/06\/top-fifty-cash-on-hand.png 1153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to embiggen. No rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I would have included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pres16\/candidate.php?id=N00000019\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> on the chart, but with over $42 million in hard\u00a0money, that would&#8217;ve messed up the vertical axis.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Trump could simply take out some (more) loans against his existing properties. Alternatively, he could continue to try to live off free media by spouting off increasingly shocking quotes. Either way, this isn&#8217;t going to end well for him.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me so happy, it feels almost as if the universe <em>knows<\/em> it&#8217;s my birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Secrets maintains a list of top-tier Congressional members by campaign cash on hand. They also have a summary page&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}