{"id":27,"date":"2006-10-08T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-10-08T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T20:54:32","slug":"measuring-the-tom-foley-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/10\/08\/measuring-the-tom-foley-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Tom Foley Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004536\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve noticed on more than one occasion someone trying to make a reference to Mark Foley instead mis-naming Mark to Tom &#8212; thus referencing Tom Foley, former Speaker of the House and Congressman of Washington State&#8217;s 5th Congressional District &#8212; the Spokane area and areas around the Spokane area.  Notably defeated in 1994 &#8212; the year of the &#8220;Republican Revolution&#8221;, only the second Speaker of the House to be defeated in an election.<\/p>\n<p>He is not Mark Foley.  But I&#8217;m curious to see a graph that shows this &#8220;Tom Foley Effect&#8221;.  Here it is, courtesy blogpulse:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/tomfoleygraph.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Just for reference, Mark Foley in the same time &#8211; period:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/markfoleygraph.png\"><\/p>\n<p>For the life of me, I don&#8217;t know why the two graphs don&#8217;t directly correlate.  Why does Tom Foley spike upward at the end there these past two days, while Mark Foley doesn&#8217;t?  I suppose I could read the blogosphere and see what people are saying about Tom Foley, and see if somehow he&#8217;s being referenced sans mistaking him for Mark Foley.  Otherwise, explanations are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed on more than one occasion someone trying to make a reference to Mark Foley instead mis-naming Mark to Tom &#8212; thus referencing Tom Foley, former Speaker of the House and Congressman of Washington State&#8217;s 5th Congressional District &#8212; the Spokane area and areas around the Spokane area. Notably defeated in 1994 &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}