Biology and politics, unfortunately linked

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For reasons that don't matter I was curious to see the correlation between the percentage of Coloradoans that voted for Biden and compare it to the percentage of Coloradoans that voted for Proposition 114 (the wolf bill). Each dot represents an individual county in Colorado. As you can see there appears to be a very tight correlation (an r-squared value above 0.7 is regarded 'highly correlated'). I think we all knew this already. Anyway, this post is worth what you paid for it I guess.

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So what you're showing is the vast majority of biden voters also voted for wolf introduction? That makes sense.
 
Data/graph source? Is this a reliable source?

How does one vote XX% on something? Voting is binary, No=0 Yes=1

There is likely a strong correlation between the two, but the way its presented is suspect to me.
 
R2=85% is super strong for social sciences.
Notice also that the population is more likely to vote for JB than for wolves (slope is <1)
 
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