[DarkKomunalec]

"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other."

..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot product' of both concepts with election results is non-zero... and concepts cannot have negative dot-products (???)... well, that's where I realized I was holding the analogy wrong.

[nl]

It's a good lesson for me really - I should have just said "unrelated" or something.

(Also, whoever down voted you for admitting you were wrong should rethink what they are doing)