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This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural
by clarkm 14y ago
This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones.
I wish someone would look at the underlying precinct data and redo this analysis while factoring in precinct population density.
- argv_empty 14y agoThis isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones. And in fact, the paper spends quite a bit of time addressing this.