{"id":3363,"date":"2016-11-08T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2016-11-08T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:30:38","slug":"what-if-only-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/what-if-only-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Only … Voted?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we wait for the results,\u00a0think back, raise a glass,\u00a0and remember fondly the meme that came and went so quickly a month or so ago:\u00a0What if only … voted?<\/em> Based on FiveThirtyEight maps showing the gender gap in voting intentions<\/a>\u00a0(What if only women voted? What if only men voted?) that quickly went viral,\u00a0similar maps showing gap by race and education<\/a>\u00a0were followed by other maps that were considerably \u00a0… sillier\u2014here’s a selection<\/a>. As\u00a0Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza said<\/a> on 14 October: “The whole thing went from funny to saturation point\u00a0to old<\/a>\u00a0in record time, and is already over.” Thing is, now that it’s Election Day I’m seeing them again. It ain’t over till it’s over. And sometimes not even then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we wait for the results,\u00a0think back, raise a glass,\u00a0and remember fondly the meme that came and went so quickly a month or so ago:\u00a0What if only … voted? Based on FiveThirtyEight maps showing the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,233],"tags":[713,337,192,158],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","category-unusual-maps","tag-2016-us-elections","tag-elections","tag-funny","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786516,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/what-if-only-voted-2018-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":3363,"position":0},"title":"What If Only … Voted: 2018 Edition","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"FiveThirtyEight looks at the polling data for the upcoming 2018 midterm elections and imagines the results for the U.S. House of Representatives if only women, men, nonwhite voters and white voters by education level voted. 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