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 :2020 Election Map
-:[cueball in a black circle] = 250,000 votes
+:[Cueball in a black circle] = 250,000 votes
-:[cueball in a blue circle] <font color="blue">Biden</font color>
+:[Cueball in a blue circle] <font color="blue">Biden</font color>
-:[cueball in a red circle] <font color="red">Trump</font color>
+:[Cueball in a red circle] <font color="red">Trump</font color>
-:[cueball in a green circle] <font color="green">Other</font color>
+:[Cueball in a green circle] <font color="green">Other</font color>
 :Votes are distributed by state as accurately as possible while keeping national totals correct.
 :Location within each state is approximate.

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 :2020 Election Map
-:[One stick figure in a black circle] = 250,000 votes
+:[cueball in a black circle] = 250,000 votes
-:[Stick figure in a blue circle] <font color="blue">Biden</font color>
+:[cueball in a blue circle] <font color="blue">Biden</font color>
-:[Stick figure in a red circle] <font color="red">Trump</font color>
+:[cueball in a red circle] <font color="red">Trump</font color>
-:[Stick figure in a green circle] <font color="green">Other</font color>
+:[cueball in a green circle] <font color="green">Other</font color>
 :Votes are distributed by state as accurately as possible while keeping national totals correct.
 :Location within each state is approximate.

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 :Location within each state is approximate.
 :[Blue, red, and green circles are distributed across a map of the United States.]
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 Randall's solution to this is to represent the Republican and Democratic voters in each state with Cueball icons, each icon representing 250,000 voters.  He has made some attempt to distribute the Cueball icons within a state in a manner similar to how the actual votes were distributed.  This has the advantage of giving a decent impression of how popular each candidate was, how their popularity varied across the country, and how the votes were distributed by both state and region.  It also gives at least a basic indication of population patterns in the US, with large regions that are sparsely inhabited, and populations clustered in urban centers.
-The title text compares different voter pools in terms of absolute size. These facts are frequently counter-intuitive. California is generally thought of as a "blue state", and Texas as a "red state" (Although that may be changing), so it's surprising to realize that, in 2020, Donald Trump received more votes in California than he did in Texas. The reason for this is not complex, California has a huge population, nearly 40 million people, of whom 17.5 million voted in 2020.  Even though Joe Biden won the state easily, Trump received 6 million of those votes.  Texas, by contrast, has 27.7 million residents and 11.3 million voters in the 2020 election. Trump received 5.9 million of those votes, which was enough to win the state. Because of the huge variation in population among US states, and the political divisions within each state, there are multiple "blue" states which have more Republican voters that at least some "red" states, and vice versa. This underscores the importance of not viewing any state as politically uniform. Even if a state trends heavily toward one party, there is always a substantial population of the other party, and in large states, that means enough people that they'd be a formidable political force anywhere else.
+The title text compares different voter pools in terms of absolute size. These facts are frequently counter-intuitive. California is generally thought of as a "blue state", and Texas as a "red state" (Although that may be changing), so it's surprising to realize that, in 2020, Donald Trump received more votes in California than he did in Texas. The reason for this is not complex, California has a huge population, nearly 40 million people, of whom 17.5 million voted in 2020. Even though [[Joe Biden]] won the state easily, Trump received 6 million of those votes. Texas, by contrast, has 27.7 million residents and 11.3 million voters in the 2020 election. Trump received 5.9 million of those votes, which was enough to win the state. Because of the huge variation in population among US states, and the political divisions within each state, there are multiple "blue" states which have more Republican voters that at least some "red" states, and vice versa. This underscores the importance of not viewing any state as politically uniform. Even if a state trends heavily toward one party, there is always a substantial population of the other party, and in large states, which means enough people that they'd be a formidable political force anywhere else.
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