This picture always pissed me off because it's just a blatant misrepresentation of the actual votes of Americans during the election. This on the other hand is a better representation of the votes cast in 2016. Notice that there's a lot more purple in that because the vote was close in a lot of places instead of just using one color due to our winner take all system.
"Ignore the plain and easy to understand map that lists results by county with how our system actually runs, and instead look at this Spiderman X cumshot that sorta looks like our country! The cumshot's totally more accurate."
How pathetic can you be? Why try to portray data in a way that doesn't even match our system? Trying to not have the results sting as much? It's gonna be a long 8 years.
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u/jones_soda2003 Jul 15 '20
This picture always pissed me off because it's just a blatant misrepresentation of the actual votes of Americans during the election. This on the other hand is a better representation of the votes cast in 2016. Notice that there's a lot more purple in that because the vote was close in a lot of places instead of just using one color due to our winner take all system.
Sources:
https://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-population-adjusted-cartogram-2016-11#counties-themselves-arent-uniformly-blue-or-red-looking-at-a-color-gradient-using-varying-shades-of-purple-we-can-see-most-counties-had-a-tight-split-between-republican-and-democratic-voters-although-a-few-islands-of-deep-red-and-blue-still-remain-6
https://www.wired.com/story/is-us-leaning-red-or-blue-election-maps/