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Chart of the Day: WTF?
Can someone please tell me what this chart is supposed to show? (UPDATE: Mystery solved! Answer's in the comments courtesy of TheGeneral -- and yes, perhaps I'm not a sharp one.)

It's from this NYT Op-Ed on how some astrophysicists have figured out a "new method of analysis" which shows that Hillary Clinton would beat John McCain in the general elections, but Barack Obama would not.
That's a decidedly contrarian stance. InTrade is giving Obama a 61 percent chance of winning the election.And two popular vote predictors also have Obama winning: electoral-vote.com projects 287 electoral votes for Obama and 227 for McCain. Meanwhile Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has Obama with 273 EVs and McCain with 265:
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