Some Polar Confusion

Sigh...the earth can be so confusing. I made a mistake when saying "the geographical poles go straight up and down through the earth" because they really don't. 

The earth's axis of rotation or the imaginary axis around which it spins is on a slight angle, and since the geographical poles are the same as the axis of rotation...the geographical poles are on an angle. Not straight up and down. Woops. 

Therefore the magnetic poles are on an even bigger angle. 

Now it makes more sense.

Source: If only I could cite people. For now I will just say a high school science teacher.