Hillary Clinton's campaign just released the worst Venn diagram of all time

[Matty]

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/20/11721368/hillary-clinton-guns-venn-diagram

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[Angrie]

What a horrendously incompetent campaign Hillary is running. Normally you would say that with incompetence like this, she should fire her entire campaign staff. But in her case, the problem starts at the top. She has never run a competent campaign, and shows no sign of starting now. She blew it against Obama, very nearly blew it against Bernie, and now is verging way too close for comfort to the edge of blowing it against Trump, which should be impossible.

[ProudModerate2]

Oops.

[Mehmentum]

Is the picture even meant to be a Venn Diagram?

[Kingpoleon]

To quote Rick Perry:

"Oops."

[Fusionmunster]

We all got what she meant so who cares.

[This account no longer in use.]

We all got what she meant so who cares.

We all got what Trump meant when he used footage of the Moroccan border in his advertisement, so who cares?

[beaver2.0]

Well.

[Ebsy]

Proposed title: German Lopez just released the Most Pointless Vox piece of all time

[Higgs]

Lmao who's the dumba** who didn't think this through.

Horrible venn diagram aside, it's a good point.

[Landslide Lyndon]

God dammit marty!
This thread was supposed to start by henster.

[Holmes]

Hillary should fire the staffer who made that tbh.

Also I hate this:

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I despise it. Vertical Venns are just wrong.

[Figueira]

It's not really something that affects my opinion of Clinton or her campaign, but it is a hilariously bad diagram.

I think the way to make it accurate would be to have three circles: people who support universal background checks, gun owners, and Americans. There are American gun owners who don't support universal background checks, there are Americans who support universal background checks but don't own guns, and there are non-American gun owners who support universal background checks. But that isn't really the point Clinton is trying to make.

[136or142]

There are much worse examples of innumeracy than this said virtually every day on the campaign trail. Innumerate statements that actually may have consequences or that are intentionally innumerate in order to lie. 

To not comment on those but to comment on the incorrect use of some stupid circles I think says more about the lack of intelligence of the original poster than anything about the Hillary Clinton campaign.

[Figueira]

There are much worse examples of innumeracy than this said virtually every day on the campaign trail. Innumerate statements that actually may have consequences or that are intentionally innumerate in order to lie. 

To not comment on those but to comment on the incorrect use of some stupid circles I think says more about the lack of intelligence of the original poster than anything about the Hillary Clinton campaign.

I think you're taking it a bit too seriously. No one thinks it's a legitimate reason to not vote for Clinton. It's just an amusing design flaw.

[IceSpear]

What a horrendously incompetent campaign Hillary is running. Normally you would say that with incompetence like this, she should fire her entire campaign staff. But in her case, the problem starts at the top. She has never run a competent campaign, and shows no sign of starting now. She blew it against Obama, very nearly blew it against Bernie, and now is verging way too close for comfort to the edge of blowing it against Trump, which should be impossible.

Only on Atlas would someone get this enraged over something so irrelevant.

[136or142]

There are much worse examples of innumeracy than this said virtually every day on the campaign trail. Innumerate statements that actually may have consequences or that are intentionally innumerate in order to lie.  

To not comment on those but to comment on the incorrect use of some stupid circles I think says more about the lack of intelligence of the original poster than anything about the Hillary Clinton campaign.

I think you're taking it a bit too seriously. No one thinks it's a legitimate reason to not vote for Clinton. It's just an amusing design flaw.

I think German Lopez was serious in her criticism.  

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What a horrendously incompetent campaign Hillary is running. Normally you would say that with incompetence like this, she should fire her entire campaign staff. But in her case, the problem starts at the top. She has never run a competent campaign, and shows no sign of starting now. She blew it against Obama, very nearly blew it against Bernie, and now is verging way too close for comfort to the edge of blowing it against Trump, which should be impossible.

Agreed. This is minor by itself, but its an indicator of a persistent problem.

[This account no longer in use.]

What a horrendously incompetent campaign Hillary is running. Normally you would say that with incompetence like this, she should fire her entire campaign staff. But in her case, the problem starts at the top. She has never run a competent campaign, and shows no sign of starting now. She blew it against Obama, very nearly blew it against Bernie, and now is verging way too close for comfort to the edge of blowing it against Trump, which should be impossible.

Only on Atlas would someone get this enraged over something so irrelevant.

But it's an angrie NH woman. Of course they're passionate about stuff like this.

[dax00]

This Venn diagram is technically possible, but it's definitely not correct.

The Venn diagram says 90% of Americans don't support background checks, the remaining 10% all own guns (not technically implied, but let's assume that to simplify), and 83% of gun owners don't support background checks. That'd mean 10% of Americans = 17% of gun owners, or 59% of Americans own guns.

[Blue3]

They should have done 2 pie charts instead.

[Nichlemn]

Pedantic.

[Illiniwek]

We all got what she meant so who cares.

[Angrie]

Only on Atlas would someone get this enraged over something so irrelevant.

Having a candidate so incompetent that she could actually possibly lose to a legitimate fascist like Trump is anything but "irrelevant." If the fate of America and the world is irrelevant to you, then you don't understand the gravity of this election.

True, it is not the Venn diagram that is going to do it. But like Runeghost points out, it is just another in a seemingly never ending string of examples. If this sort of thing keeps getting screwed up now, what is going to get screwed up in November when it counts? What will be the October miners surprise?