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CodeMonkey 2 points ago +2 / -0

They do this by plotting the difference between these voters' Trump % to the the straight Republican voters' split.

This is the problem right here. He is creating a function with y dependent on x, and then acting surprised that there is a relationship between y and x.

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civildiscourse 1 point ago +1 / -0

The function for Y is chosen to make the visualization clear. You could also express it as the split between Trump and Biden for Individual Choice voters, and you’d see a trend after 20ish% of X where Y skews towards Biden linearly.