Electoral College Map Parodies

Electoral College Map Parodies

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Electoral College Map Parodies are humorous edits to the map of the United States used in presidential elections to project and see which state will vote for which candidate.

Background

The Electoral College started after the creation of the United States of America in the late 1700s as a way for individual states to have importance in presidential elections beyond the popular vote.[1] The popular map of the electoral college features states colored in to reflect the party the state voted for (i.e., blue for Democrat, red for Republican), and has been a staple of American politics since the first presidential election held in 1789.[2]


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Origin

The origins of electoral college map parodies and edits can be traced to the 2004 election, when demotivational posters and image macros used maps of the electoral college to mock Jesusland, a term used to mock Middle America which at the time voted with strong conservative and Christian beliefs.


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As technology improved, cable news networks began incorporating interactive electoral college maps to their coverage, which prompted a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2008.[3] Still for the next two elections, electoral college map edits were not incredibly popular beyond some political cartoons and applications to preexisting memes like Scumbag Steve.


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On November 3rd, 2014, Funny or Die[4] posted a collection of surreal Electoral College map edits in one of the more notable collections of Electoral College map edits.


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In 2016, many media outlets[5][6][7] covering the election included an interactive map, which allowed users to see how the map would look if states voted certain ways, which in turn created the opportunity to make funny images, like a play on CADbortion/Loss, shown below.


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"What the Electoral College Map Would Look Like" Edits

On October 11th, 2016, American statistician and writer Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com published two pictures of the United States electoral map, one showing what it would look like if only men voted in the 2016 United States Presidential Election, the other showing what it would look like if only women voted.[8] The “only-men” map projected that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would win the 2016 Presidential Election handily, while the “only-women” map projected a landslide win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The tweets, shown below, have gained over 29,000 retweets combined as of October 13th, 2016.[9]


ate ei nlise Nate Silver @NateSilver538 Oct 11 and the Here's what the map would look line if only women voted hy so mm ethirtyeight.com/features/elect. Based on the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED TO WIN 458 Clinton Trump 80 Nebraska's 5 electoral votes STATEWIDE: ■■ DISTRICTS: Maine's 4 electoral votes STATEWIDE: DISTRICTS: And here's if just dudes voted Based on the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED TO WIN 188 Clinton Trump 350 Nebraska's 5 electoral votes STATEWIDE ■■ DISTRICTS: Maine's 4 electoral votes STATEWIDE: ■■ DISTRICTS !

Their popularity and the related #repealthe19th controversy led to an October 12th surge of edits and jokes on Twitter where users posted pictures of the country edited to fit "What the United States Would Look Like if Only X Voted."


Alice Maz @alicemazzy 2: Follow here's what the electoral map would look like if we had four political parties none of which won two adjacent states Just wow. Here's what the electoral map would look like if only people who wanted it to spell "hi" voted Clinton 448 90 5 VA CT NJ DE MD 10 OK SC MS AL 270c EWIN Split Electoral Votes User-Generated Map ME3 1 1 NE 3 HI Reset Map Share Map brian feldman (???) @bafeldman 2: Follow here's what it would look like if only the states that formed a smiley face voted in the election WA ME MT ND OR ID wi NY SD MI PA NE IA NV YIL UT MD DC CO VA MO KY NC hdghed TN OK AZ NM AR SC MS AL GA TX AK RETWEETSU 2,817 6,716 10:52 AM-12 Oct 2016

The popularity of the jokes gained media attention from New York Magazine,[10] The Hill,[11] and Wired.[12]

Various Examples


Freddie Campion @FreddieCampion Follow What would the electoral map look like if it wore pants? LIKE THIS OR LIKE THIS? RETWEETS LIKES 4,886 9,790 Here's what the map would look like if only the common sagebrush lizard voted Approximate Range of Sceloporus graciosus-Common Sagebrush Lizard S. g. gracilis-western Sagebrush Lizard S. g. graciosus-Northem Sagebrush Lizard S. g. vandenburgianus-Southern Sagebrush Lizard Thomas L. Strickland @ThomasLS Following Here's what the map would look like if we gave bears the right to vote. No Bears -1,000 Boors 1,000-10,000 Bears 10,000 30,000 Bears 200,000 Bears RETWEETSU 566 916 2W3W YMMUR P NEWS FUNNY INEWS FUNNY

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