OMGPONIES!!! Right? Except when you, y’know click the link, you get the rest of the story:

There are other factors at play, including the lead time from the initial announcement to the event, which can either compress or extend out booking patterns.   Also, within about 2 weeks of Mr. Beck’s event, there were effectively no hotel vacancies in Washington DC.  So, we can’t extrapolate and say we are going to see a bigger event.  Perhaps the data shows liberals and moderates tend to be more conservative and book more in advance or maybe it means that conservative activists tend to be more self-reliant and liberal with risk taking.  Or, most likely, it doesn’t mean much of anything. As Mark Twain would be apt to say, perhaps ‘figures lie and liars figure’, so we’ll just let somebody else do the figuring,” said Smyth with a grin.

Kind of like that hockey stick that you’re so in love with, Chuck. You think it means something because you’re an idiot.