Any thoughts?
You talkin USA elections or... I don't really get that graph.
Shift 100,000 votes in Ohio on 11/2/04. Kerry appoints O'Connor and Rehnquist's replacements.
Indeed it does. Down the page you see this graphGraph from here -- may help...
Indeed it does. Down the page you see this graph...
Which suggest that any 'explosion' in spending happened sometime in the mid-1990s.
Only if those figures are complete and inflation adjusted, which I don't think they are.Hm, fair point -- though it does look like 1996 might have been an outlier; put aside obviously event driven splurge in the 2002 midterms, and it would be unmatched until 2008...