#2136: Election Commentary
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[Cueball is presenting a graphic on his left that shows two names followed by five digits]
Cueball: Smith is leading in 3 of the 5 digits, and is tied in another. But Jones has a solid lead the thousands place, if Smith can't catch up there, it's over.
Smith: 5 5 3 8 4
Jones: 5 9 1 0 2
[In each column, the higher number is marked with a check mark and the lower with a cross and greyed out. The fives in the leftmost column are marked "tie"]
[Caption below the panel:]
A lot of election commentary just consists of unnecessarily convoluted ways to add up who has more votes.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:This really validates Jones's strategy of getting several thousand more votes than Smith. In retrospect, that was a smart move; those votes were crucial.