• @A_Very_Big_Fan
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    583 months ago

    I feel like there was probably a better way of graphing this tbh

    • @subtext
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      273 months ago

      Stacked area has to be better than this right?

    • @grue
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      63 months ago

      Third party candidates

      • @Zorque
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        63 months ago

        They’re at the bottom, where they’ve always been.

        • @grue
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          33 months ago

          I was just explaining why the D and R mirroring was “almost” rather than exact.

  • @mkwt
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    183 months ago

    There should be a small, but not totally insignificant, probability of EC tie.

    • @subtext
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      113 months ago

      I think it’s just a plain Jane line chart right? The reason it looks like this is because the two lines are n and 100%–n.

      You might be thinking of a population pyramid chart which looks somewhat similar to this if it were rotated 90°

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      As someone else said, it’s a betting site, and the numbers it is showing are based on how much has been bet on any given candidate.

      I think it’s fair to say that it’s not a reliable indicator of actual odds. It’s essentially a money weighted poll from a self selected population (people who would use an online betting site to bet on an election). So, it is not a good random sample of American voters, let alone a random sample of voters from swing states that actually decide the outcome.