When election soothsayer Nate Silver tweeted out a couple of maps Tuesday,Watch Angel Has Fallen Online 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."
SEE ALSO: These are the dictators who throw opponents in jail — or worseA 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.
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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.
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Oh, but the fun didn't stop there. Brave citizens of the internet decided to examine other possible demographic scenarios.
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And, of course, someone made the inevitable Kenneth Bone joke.
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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.
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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.
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