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Okay but:
Bernie was never going to win the deep-red states on the strength of his primary polling.
Land doesn't vote in the Dem primaries.
The implication of these maps is to present one candidate or party or idea as overwhelmingly popular, when it's just color-by-the-numbers for largely empty space.
But it's not empty space?
It is the low density states that make it so much easier for the Republicans to win especially when the Democrats avoid them and people call it empty.
Those states that are "empty" are always half of the electoral votes.
Also don't do statistics for a thing we don't have any data for we don't know how he would have performed cause it's not just simple math it's real life and we never got to, nor will we ever know.