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Comment by Adodie at 27/01/2021 at 06:24 UTC*
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That's 20x STD from the mean. Pretty improbable.
If I'm understanding you correctly (e.g., if you mean "down ballot misaligned votes" as being ballots where a voter voted for Biden but a Republican down ballot, or visa versa), this really isn't odd whatsoever. There's lots of cases where a Congressional/Senate candidate might just be extremely well suited to their district which causes lots of divergences down ballot.
Take Joe Manchin. He won his Senate race by 24% in 2012 while Obama lost the state by 27 points. But nobody would (or should) take that as evidence of fraud.
Or look at Dem Represenative Henry Cuellar -- he crushed it in the Rio Grande while Biden collapsed.
Of course, split-ticket voting is becoming less common[1], but it certainly still is something that happens
1: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-wasnt-that-much-split-ticket-voting-in-2020/
(Edited to fix a couple spelling errors)
Comment by Groundbreaking-Hand3 at 27/01/2021 at 15:57 UTC
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But how does that deviation prove anything? It fucked Democrats over, so what did they have to gain?