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December 2019 graphics

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Step chart showing the number of major 2020 Democratic presidential candidates declining from 24 in July to 16 by December 2, 2019.

Charts 2019-12-02

The Democratic field continues to shrink

From The Winnowing Continues With Steve Bullock And Joe Sestak by Nathaniel Rakich

Scatter plot showing peak win probability vs. minutes remaining for 2019 Detroit Lions losses and ties, with each game labeled by week and opponent.

Charts 2019-12-03

The Lions snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — a lot

From The Detroit Lions Keep Finding Ways To Blow Leads by Ty Schalter

Bar chart showing San Antonio Spurs defensive rating relative to league average from 1977 to 2020, highlighting the Popovich-Duncan era and a recent defensive decline.

Charts 2019-12-03

The Spurs have never struggled like this on defense

From The Spurs Have Never Been This Bad At Defense by Jared Dubin

Bar chart comparing estimated TV ad spending by Democratic presidential candidates Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and all others as of December 1, 2019.

Charts 2019-12-03

Bloomberg has blown past most Democrats in TV ad buys

From Michael Bloomberg Outspent The Entire Democratic Field In TV Ads Last Week by Nathaniel Rakich

Scatter plot showing Kamala Harris's vote share in national polls from late 2018 through October 2019, with annotations marking her campaign announcement and first Democratic debate peak.

Charts 2019-12-03

It's been all downhill for Harris since that first debate peak

From Why Kamala Harris’s Campaign Failed by Perry Bacon Jr

Diverging bar chart showing respondents' opinions by party on whether Trump committed an impeachable offense and whether he should be removed, from a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll.

Charts 2019-12-04

Democrats are more likely to support removal from office

From The Impeachment Hearings Just Confirmed Voters’ Preexisting Opinions by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Laura Bronner

Line chart showing Democratic (46.8%) and Republican (41.1%) polling averages with confidence intervals from April 2019 through Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with a marker at Dec. 4, 2019.

Charts 2019-12-06

Democrats vs. Republicans polling average April 2019 – Election Day 2020

From Voters’ Second-Choice Candidates Show A Race That Is Still Fluid by Geoffrey Skelley

Color-coded matrix table showing the share of Democratic primary voters whose second choice candidate is each candidate, broken down by their first choice, from a Morning Consult poll Nov. 25-Dec. 1.

Tables 2019-12-06

Sanders is the leading second choice for Biden supporters

From Voters’ Second-Choice Candidates Show A Race That Is Still Fluid by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart showing Trump approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 through late 2019, with disapproval at 53.3% and approval at 41.8%.

Charts 2019-12-06

Trump Approval Ratings Over Time

From Voters’ Second-Choice Candidates Show A Race That Is Still Fluid by Geoffrey Skelley

Heat map matrix showing share of Democratic primary respondents whose second choice is each candidate, broken down by their first choice, from a Quinnipiac poll Nov. 21-25.

Charts 2019-12-06

Warren is also a popular second-choice pick

From Voters’ Second-Choice Candidates Show A Race That Is Still Fluid by Geoffrey Skelley

Stacked area charts comparing share of congressional seats won by each party in North Carolina and Pennsylvania under various national House popular vote scenarios.

Charts 2019-12-06

It's hard to flip seats in North Carolina's new map

From North Carolina’s New House Map Hands Democrats Two Seats — But It Still Leans Republican by Nathaniel Rakich

Color-coded map of North Carolina showing 13 numbered congressional districts, each district filled with a distinct color.

Maps 2019-12-06

North Carolina Congressional Districts Map

From North Carolina’s New House Map Hands Democrats Two Seats — But It Still Leans Republican by Nathaniel Rakich

Scatter plot showing NFL team logos positioned by expected points added per play outside the pocket versus overall wins through Week 13, illustrating that teams stronger out of the pocket tend to win more games.

Charts 2019-12-06

Teams strong out of the pocket (usually) win more games

From Teams Are Excelling When Their QBs Leave The Pocket. Can That Continue? by Josh Hermsmeyer

Choropleth map of the United States with select states highlighted in dark blue against a light blue background, with decorative dot patterns on the sides.

Maps 2019-12-09

US States Highlighted Map

From Who’s Leading The Democratic Primary In Super Tuesday States? by Nathaniel Rakich

Line chart tracking polling averages for support vs. don't support impeachment from March to December 2019, with key events marked.

Charts 2019-12-09

Support vs. Don't Support Impeachment Polling Averages (Mar–Dec 2019)

From Does The Democrats’ Impeachment Timeline Still Make Sense?

Area chart showing the share of African American head coaches in Division I college football from 1975 to the mid-2010s, peaking around 13% circa 2011.

Charts 2019-12-10

Black coaches still make up a small share of Division I

From College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances by Josh Planos

Line chart showing the number of all Power Five head coaches versus African American head coaches by season from 2005 to 2019, illustrating a persistent racial gap.

Charts 2019-12-10

Power Five coaches are still overwhelmingly white

From College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances by Josh Planos

Line chart showing polling averages for support vs. don't support Trump impeachment from March to December 2019, with key events marked.

Charts 2019-12-10

Support vs. Don't Support Trump Impeachment, Mar–Dec 2019

From Where Americans Stand On The Democrats’ Impeachment Charges by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Line chart showing Democratic and Republican generic ballot polling averages from April 2019 through Election Day Nov. 3, 2020, with Democrats at 47.2% and Republicans at 40.6% as of Dec. 12, 2019.

Charts 2019-12-13

Generic Ballot Polling: Democrats 47.2% vs Republicans 40.6%

From The Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Becoming Less Popular by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing Trump approval and disapproval ratings from January 2017 through late 2019, with disapproval at 53.2% and approval at 41.9%.

Charts 2019-12-13

Trump Approval Ratings Over Time

From The Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Becoming Less Popular by Dhrumil Mehta

Small multiples scatter plot showing net favorability ratings for Trump and four 2020 Democratic candidates among registered voters from January to December 2019.

Charts 2019-12-13

Trump is less popular than leading Democratic candidates

From The Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Becoming Less Popular by Dhrumil Mehta

Line chart showing polling averages for Democratic 2020 primary candidates in Iowa from April to December 2019, with Buttigieg leading at 20.8% on Dec. 13.

Charts 2019-12-13

Who's ahead in Iowa?

From What Makes Our New 2020 Democratic Primary Polling Averages Different by Nate Silver

Line chart showing polling averages for 2020 Democratic primary candidates in South Carolina from April to December 2019, with Biden leading at 35.6% on Dec. 13.

Charts 2019-12-13

Who's ahead in South Carolina?

From What Makes Our New 2020 Democratic Primary Polling Averages Different by Nate Silver

Line chart showing NFL passing yards per attempt minus rushing yards per attempt from 2001 to 2019, illustrating that passing efficiency remains high.

Charts 2019-12-13

Passing efficiency remains high in the NFL

From The NFL Is Obsessed With Passing, But Teams Could Make Runs More Efficient by Josh Hermsmeyer

Three line charts showing the share of Democrats who support government health care, improving Black living standards, and increasing immigration from 1986 to 2018, each showing liberal increases over time.

Charts 2019-12-16

Democrats have become more liberal over time

From Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years by Maddie Sach

Three line charts showing the share of Democrats who support government help for health care, improving Black living standards, and increasing immigration from the late 1980s to 2018.

Charts 2019-12-16

Democrats have become more liberal over time on health care, race and immigration

From Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years by Maddie Sach

Two line charts showing the share of Democrats who think immigration should be increased, broken down by education level and political ideology from 2003 to 2018.

Charts 2019-12-16

Should immigration be increased?

From Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years by Maddie Sach

Two line charts showing the share of Democrats who think immigration should be increased, broken down by education level and political ideology from 2003 to 2018.

Charts 2019-12-16

Should immigration be increased?

From Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years by Maddie Sach

Four maps of Iowa showing field office locations for Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, and Sanders compared to Obama's 2008 field offices, with county shading by population.

Maps 2019-12-16

Candidates set up shop in Iowa, but not like Obama in 2008

From The 2020 Candidates Aren’t Matching Obama’s Iowa Ground Game (Yet) by Joshua Darr

Win probability graphic showing Dallas Cowboys at 44% and Philadelphia Eagles at 56% with a -1.5 point spread for a 4:25 p.m. NFL game.

Other 2019-12-16

Cowboys vs. Eagles Win Probability — 44% vs. 56%

From What We Learned From A Very Confusing Week 15 In The NFL

Line chart showing the percentage of Americans who trust the government in Washington always or most of the time from 1960 to Trump era, with moving average and individual polls.

Charts 2019-12-17

% who trust the govt in Washington always or most of the time

From In American Politics, Everyone’s A Cynic by Maggie Koerth

Line chart showing the average trust in government index score from 1964 to 2016, illustrating a long-term decline from a peak near 61 in the late 1960s to about 17 by 2016.

Charts 2019-12-17

Public trust in government has plummeted

From In American Politics, Everyone’s A Cynic by Maggie Koerth

Dot plot showing Andrew Yang's polling position by age and sex demographic groups, with gray dots representing other candidates and an orange dot marking Yang.

Charts 2019-12-17

Age and sex — Andrew Yang polling by demographic group

From What We Know About Andrew Yang’s Base by Geoffrey Skelley

Line chart comparing November win percentages for AP Top 10 vs Top 25 men's college basketball teams from 2010 to 2019, showing both groups declining in the most recent year.

Charts 2019-12-17

Top 10 teams had a tough November this year

From The Top Men’s College Basketball Teams Just Keep Losing by Jake Lourim

Scatter plot showing point differential through 14 games for NFL teams with 11 wins since 1970, highlighting Seattle's historically low point differential among such teams.

Charts 2019-12-18

Seattle isn't winning like 11-win teams usually do

From The Seahawks Keep It Close. Is That Any Way To Win A Super Bowl? by Michael Salfino, Neil Paine

Dot plot showing share of respondents considering voting for each Democratic candidate, with Biden leading at 52.2% followed by Sanders and Warren near 39%.

Charts 2019-12-19

Who voters are considering — The Before Picture

From Who Has The Most To Gain Or Lose In Tonight’s Democratic Debate?

Line chart comparing Detroit Pistons defensive rebounding rates by season with Andre Drummond on vs. off the court from 2013 to 2020.

Charts 2019-12-20

Drummond is helping team rebounding more than ever

From Andre Drummond Is The Real Board Man by Jared Dubin

Scatter plot showing words spoken vs. polling average for each candidate in the sixth Democratic debate, with Klobuchar speaking the most.

Charts 2019-12-20

Klobuchar spoke more than any other candidate

From The December Democratic Debate in 6 Charts by Maddie Sach, Laura Bronner, Yutong Yuan

Scatter plot comparing pre-debate favorability vs. debate performance for 2019 Democratic primary candidates, based on a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll.

Charts 2019-12-20

Which candidates made an outsized impression?

From The December Democratic Debate in 6 Charts by Maddie Sach, Laura Bronner, Yutong Yuan

Dot plot comparing convictions and guilty pleas over years into investigation for major US special investigations since 1973, including Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Russia, as of Feb. 13, 2019.

Charts 2019-12-27

Here's how the Russia investigation stacks up

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Dot matrix chart showing abortion restrictions enacted by state legislatures between 2011 and 2019, organized by state in a geographic grid layout with color-coded dots by restriction type.

Charts 2019-12-27

How are states restricting abortion access?

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Grid of 20 US metro area maps ranked by partisan segregation score, shaded blue and red to show geographic political clustering, with scores ranging from 0.63 to 0.38.

Maps 2019-12-27

Most Partisan-Segregated Metro Areas, Ranked 1–20

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Dot density map of Cleveland metro area showing population by race and ethnicity per census tract, with bar charts comparing Shaker Heights and Parma racial composition.

Maps 2019-12-27

Shaker Heights and Parma are demographically distant

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Ternary plot showing the 15 most distinctive words in post-Cohen hearing coverage on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC on Feb. 27, 2019, positioned by share of usage across the three networks.

Charts 2019-12-27

What words define a network's Cohen coverage?

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Stadium diagram showing share of foul ball landings by zone across 10 MLB stadiums, with notable injury incidents from 2016-2019 annotated by location.

Tables 2019-12-27

Where do most foul balls land?

From The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019 by Christopher Groskopf

Side-by-side choropleth maps of Cleveland metro precincts showing two-party vote margin in 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, with bar charts for Parma and Shaker Heights suburbs.

Maps 2019-12-30

Two suburbs diverged in 2016

From Some Of Our Best Work From 2019

NFL game matchup card showing Seattle vs Philadelphia with ELO point spread of -5.5 and win probabilities of 31% and 69% respectively.

Charts 2019-12-30

Seattle vs Philadelphia ELO Win Probability

From What The Final Week Of The NFL Season Tells Us About The Playoffs