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by fenomas 1958 days ago
Negatory - the sets being compared aren't independent.

That is, the overall population is (roughly) half red and half blue. If you divide that population into groups - on whatever basis - and the largest group is 93% red, then it follows that some of the other groups are going to be mostly blue.

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That's only the case if you have equivalent populations and people can make only one choice, neither of which is true here.
They're equivalent to a first approximation, and the numbers we're talking about are from a poll where respondents could make only one choice.