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Thank you for actually understanding what the second map says. It’s shocking how many people in these comments were so easily fooled into thinking that is where the people live in the second map.

Keep in mind both of these maps are grossly misleading. Or at least one is being presented in a misleading way.

One is just coloring an entire county the way the majority voted. This is why those huge (land) counties are all red, because at least 1 more person in it votes for trump than Biden (presumably, I don’t know what the map is actually based on but it’s a safe bet). So that’s why “the sand” is regularly colored red. Although saying noone lives these is misleading.

Which leads me to the second map is probably a noble effort to show some population scale, by reducing all of the counties to a circle the relative size of their population, but it’s being misrepresented here as if that’s where all of the people in those counties live, which is certainly false. Just look at the center of the country, it’s basically a grid of small dots. Do people honestly think the population is distributed like that?

The most frustrating thing about this is everyone in this thread is complaining about how Republicans are too stupid to understand why the map is colored the way it is…while being absolutely fooled as to why the other map is the way it is.

She’s definitely a boomer. Funny thing about this is that it’s Clint who isn’t a boomer.

Muh both sides is almost universally used to justify still considering Republicans despite how terrible the party has become.

They’re full of shit.

While I agree that people should vote like they don’t exist, the reality is that they do a good job of giving you an idea of where voters stand. They were historically accurate in 2022.

If you think “they’re full of shit” it’s almost certainly a problem of understanding rather than with the polls themselves. Considering you haven’t really made an argument as to why, I can’t know for sure.

The polls are literally telling you that it’s neck and neck right now. If this isn’t clear to you, the problem isn’t the polls.

I gotcha, I misunderstood

I know we were less likely to work on the same file concurrently.

I mean, isn’t that when merge conflicts happen? Isn’t that your answer?

Reluctantly, I gave the piece a fair shake.

It’s garbage. We know that the DNC pushed other more moderate candidates out so that a more moderate candidate, one the average democratic voter and independent thinks they want, could win instead of them all splitting the vote. This was obvious, not some conspiracy theory.

The author of the piece is trying to claim that because one person said they chose a candidate that could beat sanders, that was the ultimate goal. But they wanted to beat sanders because they felt he couldn’t beat trump. They quote one person effectively saying this, but then dishonestly spin it.

The second quote is one person saying that he thinks sanders policies are bad, as if this proves anything.

It’s amazing anyone reads this site without realizing how terrible it is.