{"id":23065,"date":"2020-11-06T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-history-of-the-map-behind-land-doesnt-vote-people-do#id28279"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:34:00","slug":"the-history-of-the-map-behind-land-doesnt-vote-people-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-history-of-the-map-behind-land-doesnt-vote-people-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of the map behind \u201cland doesn\u2019t vote, people do.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The viral election map of this election, demonstrating that thousands of miles of empty land don&#39;t actually vote for anybody, was made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90572489\/u-s-election-maps-are-wildly-misleading-so-this-designer-fixed-them\">a Belgian man in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As many of you noticed the map I used is not using the proper vote results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election. I have been mislead by the map posted by Lara Trump which shows more red than it should be. Here is an updated version of the GIF: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/et2P9qn5P3\">pic.twitter.com\/et2P9qn5P3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karim Dou&iuml;eb (@karim_douieb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karim_douieb\/status\/1181934417650040832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-history-of-the-map-behind-land-doesnt-vote-people-do\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The viral election map of this election, demonstrating that thousands of miles of empty land don&#8217;t actually vote for anybody, was made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90572489\/u-s-election-maps-are-wildly-misleading-so-this-designer-fixed-them\">a Belgian man in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As many of you noticed the map I used is not using the proper vote results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election. I have been mislead by the map posted by Lara Trump which shows more red than it should be. Here is an updated version of the GIF: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/et2P9qn5P3\">pic.twitter.com\/et2P9qn5P3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karim Dou\u00efeb (@karim_douieb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karim_douieb\/status\/1181934417650040832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-history-of-the-map-behind-land-doesnt-vote-people-do\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23066,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23065\/revisions\/23066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}