Nate Silver Ruins A Perfectly Good Trumped Up Scandal

We had a white hot political scandal on our hands for a second when a right wing subsidized newspaper reported that most of the Chrysler dealerships being closed by the Obama administration are... Republican donors!~ Uh oh! Impeachment looms.

Then Nate Silver went to work:

A meme that is currently picking up traction in the conservative blogosphere is that the list of dealerships to be shuttered as a result of Chrysler's bankruptcy contains a disproportionate number donors to Republican candidates. There have been furious efforts to prove this contention by looking up campaign contributor lists at the Huffington Post, Open Secrets, and other places.

There is just one problem with this theory. Nobody has bothered to look up data for the control group: the list of dealerships which aren't being closed. It turns out that all car dealers are, in fact, overwhelmingly more likely to donate to Republicans than to Democrats -- not just those who are having their doors closed.

KO has fun with the corpse of this idiotic meme:

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