Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM Pacific

Two presidential tickets walk into a room...

So let's say you're looking at a room with 100 people in it. 98 of the people are randomly chosen from different American families, and two of the people are the presidential and vice presidential candidates of either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.

What share of the wealth, on average, will Barack Obama and Joe Biden have in that room full of 100 people, and what share of the wealth will John McCain and Mitt Romney have on average?

The pie charts below tell the story. In room full of 100 people, on average John McCain and Mitt Romney alone will have just about all the wealth. Barack Obama and Joe Biden on the other hand are much closer to average.

Of course, this disparity wouldn't have much meaning if it weren't for the policies that each party's candidates support and oppose, but given how the Bush-McCain economic record stacks up against the Democratic Party's economic record, I think these charts do explain part of the reason why the Bush-McCain policies are so bad: they are just out of touch.