• rarWars
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    5 months ago

    The percentages for 2016 only add up to 97, and the 40% bar is longer than the 41% of 2012.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe 3% voted for a third party, and because they aren’t shown the other bars were expanded to fill the entire space

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        5 months ago

        They could’ve done a little green sliver like they did for 1980.

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      5 months ago

      Just like the sub on reddit, the data in DataIsBeautiful apparently doesn’t actually have to be beautiful.

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      Also, sometimes it say “won” or lost" behind the candidates, sometimes there is an asterisk, but for many entries, there is no information who won and who lost?

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        The asterisk is explained up top, and they only indicate who won when it is backwards from the popular vote total.