Eric Trump learns what the electoral map would look life if the internet turned it into a meme
When election soothsayer Nate Silver tweeted out a couple of maps Tuesday, he probably didn't know he was giving birth to a meme.
The FiveThirtyEight founder illustrated how the 2016 election would turn out if only men or women voted, based on a "polls-only forecast."
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A blue map showed women overwhelmingly handing the election to Hillary Clinton. A red map showed men giving Trump an easy victory.
Soon after, according to BuzzFeed, Donald Trump's son, Eric, sent out a fundraising email with a GIF of the U.S. electoral map turning red.
Here's what the map would look line if only women voted: https://t.co/sjVY67qouE pic.twitter.com/rrc3GuXmGl
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 11, 2016
And here's if just dudes voted. pic.twitter.com/HjqJzIVwc4
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 11, 2016
The problem? It turns out Eric just took the FiveThirtyEight map of a men-only election and used it as a vague indicator that "momentum is on our side." (Which, according to the latest polls, isn't the case.)
He was, of course, promptly mocked.
This actually shows @NateSilver538's projection if only men voted. https://t.co/x9615H6uAg
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) October 12, 2016
Trump camp is pushing an electoral map that shows them winning handily. It's the 538 "if only men voted" projection. https://t.co/f4HCh7endB
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) October 12, 2016
Lol Eric Trump sent out a gif of this map to supporters and said they were making gains. 🙃 https://t.co/anHGDsrJVE
— Grim Kardafrican (@wstafrican) October 12, 2016
Oh, but the fun didn't stop there. Brave citizens of the internet decided to examine other possible demographic scenarios.
Crazy - this is what the electoral map would look like if only goats voted. pic.twitter.com/53nYlrZiO1
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 12, 2016
Here's what the election would look like if only the parts of the country that fit in this American flag bikini voted pic.twitter.com/uUWtZQsab6
— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) October 12, 2016
Here's the electoral map if only monorail enthusiasts voted pic.twitter.com/IvFWzG3n1K
— John Hendrickson (@JohnGHendy) October 12, 2016
And here's what the electoral map would look like if everyone just went out and got drunk instead: pic.twitter.com/JrAPrwImQv
— Tom Freeman (@SnoozeInBrief) October 12, 2016
What the electoral map would look like today if it was a hamburger instead: pic.twitter.com/9JBt9696oa
— The BoogeyMGK (@mightygodking) October 12, 2016
Here's what the electoral map would look like if a giant meteor hit the US on November 7. pic.twitter.com/zd3iQwnyi3
— Jonathan Cohn (@JonathanCohn) October 12, 2016
Here is what the electoral map would look like if only rocks were allowed to vote. pic.twitter.com/ZB8U8LdCbL
— Jason Love (@jasonloveusa) October 12, 2016
And, of course, someone made the inevitable Kenneth Bone joke.
what the electoral map would look like if only Kenneth Bones voted pic.twitter.com/GAJkvy9JAN
— TORMBLABLY PIACKEELS (@Tormny_Pickeals) October 12, 2016
Sadly, the bottom-dwellers of the internet decided to use FiveThirtyEight's maps to make a lame joke about repealing the 19th Amendment, passed in 1920 to guarantee women's right to vote.
This is why we need to repeal and not replace the 19th amendment. #RepealThe19th https://t.co/bV4WnbgQ2H
— David McCall (@WoodrowMelkin) October 12, 2016
@NateSilver538 Women are not fit for politics. #RepealThe19th
— Reichsführer Pepe (@smugpepe1488) October 11, 2016
I would be willing to give up my right to vote to make this happen #repealthe19th https://t.co/vndQu9dKFP
— CT Christian 4 Trump (@TracyOgrodnik) October 12, 2016
Luckily for the rest of us, who live in the 21st century, a majority of voters in the last presidential election (53 percent) were women, so trolls like this don't have a chance in hell of getting what they want.
