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:: You're being sarcastic, right?  Just want to be clear so we don't fuel the [potential] flames to come.  [[User:ChessCake|ChessCake]] ([[User talk:ChessCake|talk]]) 22:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 
:: You're being sarcastic, right?  Just want to be clear so we don't fuel the [potential] flames to come.  [[User:ChessCake|ChessCake]] ([[User talk:ChessCake|talk]]) 22:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 
::: I took "so-and-so" as proof that neatnit was joking. Angry people on the internet use harsher words. SDT [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.38|162.158.75.38]] 22:57, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 
::: I took "so-and-so" as proof that neatnit was joking. Angry people on the internet use harsher words. SDT [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.38|162.158.75.38]] 22:57, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
:::: Definitely. Call someone a "blankety-blank" and you are inviting bloody revenge. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 04:58, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 
 
::: Definitely. The "so-and-so" instead of an insult, and the deliberately vague grouping of "people who share your particular political opinions" were a clear giveaway. :) --[[User:V2Blast|V2Blast]] ([[User talk:V2Blast|talk]]) 22:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 
::: Definitely. The "so-and-so" instead of an insult, and the deliberately vague grouping of "people who share your particular political opinions" were a clear giveaway. :) --[[User:V2Blast|V2Blast]] ([[User talk:V2Blast|talk]]) 22:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
:::: explainexplainxkcdcomments.com [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.154|172.68.65.154]] 00:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
 
 
It seems to me that one of the main messages in this comic is that voters for both Trump and Biden are pretty well distributed around the country.  Looking at the typical choropleth maps with states colored red or blue, it can seem that the political division in the country is also a geographical division.  This map, and the title text, emphasize that, at the scale of the whole country, that really isn't the case.  The urban/suburban/rural breakdown isn't all that evident at this scale. [[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 07:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 
It seems to me that one of the main messages in this comic is that voters for both Trump and Biden are pretty well distributed around the country.  Looking at the typical choropleth maps with states colored red or blue, it can seem that the political division in the country is also a geographical division.  This map, and the title text, emphasize that, at the scale of the whole country, that really isn't the case.  The urban/suburban/rural breakdown isn't all that evident at this scale. [[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 07:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 
: ''The urban/suburban/rural breakdown isn't all that evident at this scale'': au contraire, it's quite clear that the denser the area, the more Biden voters there are, even in red states. See Texas for instance, where around big cities you have more blue dots than red.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.160|141.101.107.160]] 10:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 
: ''The urban/suburban/rural breakdown isn't all that evident at this scale'': au contraire, it's quite clear that the denser the area, the more Biden voters there are, even in red states. See Texas for instance, where around big cities you have more blue dots than red.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.160|141.101.107.160]] 10:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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Where does the .5 in the table for NY and CT come from? I can see that two markers sit across the border for the two states, but it personally seems to me that the numbers can be more accurate with some editing. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.220|108.162.229.220]] 03:02, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 
Where does the .5 in the table for NY and CT come from? I can see that two markers sit across the border for the two states, but it personally seems to me that the numbers can be more accurate with some editing. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.220|108.162.229.220]] 03:02, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 
:Well, I added the 0.5s for CT because I could see the markers sitting across the border. But since the full table wasn't available yet at that time, I didn't know whether it was split on purpose or just lack of space. If it's more accurate to assign the markers to either state, then feel to do that. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.18|162.158.159.18]] 10:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 
:Well, I added the 0.5s for CT because I could see the markers sitting across the border. But since the full table wasn't available yet at that time, I didn't know whether it was split on purpose or just lack of space. If it's more accurate to assign the markers to either state, then feel to do that. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.18|162.158.159.18]] 10:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 
I have no memory of this XKCD getting published, even though I was following the comic well before 2020. Dang. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.208|173.245.52.208]] 04:17, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
 
  
 
== As seen on CNN ==
 
== As seen on CNN ==
  
 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-election/index.html
 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-election/index.html

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