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The newspaper:

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\u201cM\u00e9lenchon, a far-left candidate,\u201d

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Wait But Why post\u00a0\u201cexplaining\u201d the same news story:

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\u201cOkay, so. \u00a0To understand this, we\u2019re going to have to zoom way out first.

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The first thing you need to know is that politics is kind of like a line. \u00a0We could call it the Politics Noodle. \u00a0People like to yell at each other because they\u2019re standing on different parts of the noodle.

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[6-panel cartoon of stick figures standing on a piece of spaghetti and exchanging quirky insults]

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Weird, huh?

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Now, imagine that Hillary Clinton wakes up one morning, and finds herself standing in her usual place on the Politics Noodle.

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[cartoon of stick figure Hillary saying something Hillary-ish]

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She looks to her left and sees Bernie Sanders,\u201d

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