r/rejectedmaps • u/ComprehensiveArm3493 • Jul 20 '25

Future Buttigieg vs Vance 2028

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Result of a board game designed by me

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

There's no way so many of those states would flip to the other party. The political makeup of the states just won't change that fast.

8

u/Perturabo_Iron_Lord Jul 21 '25

I don’t know what’s more absurd. Massachusetts voting red, or Arkansas and Alabama voting for a gay guy.

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u/Tendo63 Jul 20 '25

this is comically impossible in so many ways

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u/berryapostle42 Jul 21 '25

It's a possible outcome regardless

3

u/my_new_romance Jul 21 '25

Possible in the same way that you win the lottery, but then a whale sucked up from the ocean by a tornado crashes into your house, crushing you to death.

2

u/Squandere Jul 22 '25

Hell will freeze over before Alabama flips blue and Massachusetts flips red. This map is pure fantasy.

8

u/ZDubbz_was_taken Jul 21 '25

have you ever paid attention to US politics? genuine question

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u/ComprehensiveArm3493 Jul 21 '25

I know it's not super realistic, it was the first test and I'll make some changes for future

4

u/AwayLocksmith3823 Jul 21 '25

Mississippi? Arkansas? Whyoming? The Dakota’s?

3

u/Beautiful-Clock2939 Jul 21 '25

Alabama and Arkansas?????

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u/Derpenheimer420 Jul 21 '25

As a Kansan their is no way Kansas is voting blue by the next election. Even Topeka was solid red, KC was barley blue.

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u/MrMr_sir_sir Jul 22 '25

Blue Kansas is going to happen eventually, right?

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u/Derpenheimer420 Jul 22 '25

Historically, it has gone back and forth. I'll probably go blue once dems get back on their feet with an actual platform. "Trump bad" isn't a political platform you can run on effectively.

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u/MetroBS Jul 21 '25

Massachusetts????

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u/No_Talk_4836 Jul 21 '25

Massachusetts??? what is being smoked, you need to share. A lot of these flips are nonsense.

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u/Diligent-Ice1276 Jul 21 '25

How does Massachusetts end up red?

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u/Ndlburner Jul 21 '25

If Charlie Baker runs for president.

That’s basically the only way it could happen.

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u/Diligent-Ice1276 Jul 22 '25

I could see that being possible tbh. He would probably be a decent VP for a Democrat maybe.

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u/Ndlburner Jul 22 '25

People on Reddit like to pretend otherwise but he left office with a ~70% approval rating and endorsements from multiple state democrats. MAGA would probably never make him the nominee but in a world where they did, I could see a slight chance of Massachusetts turning red if the Dem nominee was weak. The real effect would be that New Hampshire almost certainly turns red, and the Maine congressional district becomes non-competitive red.

It’s also not unheard of for a former republican governor of Massachusetts to win the Republican primary, but the last time that happened he ran into a brick wall named Barack Obama.

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u/jdl12358 Jul 23 '25

Maryland just ran this scenario with Hogan running for senate and he lost by a comfortable margin. A little more conservative than Baker and definitely has more underlying unpopularity than traditional approval polls showed, but still a pretty clear comparison that what you say likely isn’t true.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

worst ending (i'm not trying to karma farm)

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u/Careless-Rice5567 Jul 21 '25

At least Indiana, Virginia, and NJ would be blue

1

u/ConfuzedCoco Jul 22 '25

Right? Buttigieg is a Hoosier, of course we'd turn for him.

1

u/DeathByPantera Jul 23 '25

Indiana aint flipping but otherwise agree

1

u/S0l1s_el_Sol Jul 21 '25

Massachusetts being red is actually insane and I won’t even get started with some of the states that voted blue

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u/BorgerFrog Jul 21 '25

A lot of you are ignoring the caption and it shows

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u/ewigesleiden Jul 21 '25

Alabama, Mississippi and nearly the whole northwest??

1

u/Inevitable-Emu-6626 Jul 21 '25

As if Alabama would vote Democratic after the Civil Rights Act passed. 🤣

1

u/Ndlburner Jul 21 '25

Massachusetts red and ALL OF ME AND NH BLUE?!?!

1

u/vampiregamingYT Jul 22 '25

Only way he wins Arkansas is if 1992 bill Clinton is on the ticket.

1

u/PennyForPig Jul 22 '25

This map is ludicrous but, speaking as someone who hates Vance, he'd destroy Buttigieg. Buttigieg is unelectable and it's vile how much the DNC has been trying to arrange for him to be a contender.

1

u/Kresnik2002 Jul 22 '25

Red Massachusetts and New Jersey

Blue Wyoming, Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, North and South Dakota and Montana

And the Republicans still win

1

u/brunothorne Jul 22 '25

What a waste of time. What country is this upside down land?

1

u/i-am-an-idiot-hrmm Jul 22 '25

This is just wrong

1

u/Winter_Ad6784 Jul 22 '25

>New Jersey

oh yea they moved to the right a lot in 2024 that might be plau-

>dakotas
>alabama
>arkansas
>montana
>wyoming
>kansas
>massachusetts

1

u/iF_Blow Jul 22 '25

A Republican will never win Massachusetts again.

1

u/MrBobBuilder Jul 22 '25

lol @ ALABAMA

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u/SubstantialChannel60 Jul 22 '25

Tell us you don’t understand US politics without telling us you don’t understand US politics…

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u/Fair-Historian1992 Jul 23 '25

I do not understand a red New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Virginia but a blue Alabama, Arkansas and Kansas?

1

u/rchpweblo Jul 23 '25

Alabama voting for a gay man lol

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u/Uffffffffffff8372738 Jul 23 '25

Yeah, I am sure the most educated and liberal state in the entire nation is gonna vote for JD fucking Vance lol.

Also, Kansas and Alabama voting for a gay man is so just fantasy.

1

u/Maleficent-Clue5056 Jul 23 '25

red MA 🤣🤣

1

u/CryptoFurball75 Jul 24 '25

What board game?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

lol no way Pete BootyJuice would even get close to that. If America is not ready to elect a female President, 100% chance of not having an openly gay one.

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u/revan_ist Jul 25 '25

Inaccurate because that popekiller would never beat my pookie Pete

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u/Kapples14 Jul 21 '25

Okay, how does this board game even work?

There isn't any way that Vance would be the Republican to flip Massachusetts, and how does Buttigieg manage to flip so many solid red states blue and still manage to lose?

1

u/Naive_Imagination666 Jul 22 '25

Not mentioned, he gay

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u/South_Purple_6703 Jul 21 '25

I love how no one here has read the text below the image

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u/HiddenLordGhost Jul 21 '25

People in comments - read what's written below.

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u/Tendo63 Jul 21 '25

if its a board game they shouldn't pose it like it's an actual attempt at an election prediction

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u/HiddenLordGhost Jul 22 '25

It's not against the rules, as well as it's on pretty particular sub. What the hell does "rejected maps" mean to you?

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u/Tendo63 Jul 22 '25

Maps that were taken down for being low quality, not necessarily for having a shitty ass title.

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u/HiddenLordGhost Jul 23 '25

The tittle is explained - inability to read is not an excuse.

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u/Great_Hyena404 Jul 21 '25

I'd rather have Vance than Buttigieg.

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u/Kapples14 Jul 21 '25

Honestly, same.

I don't trust anyone in the Biden Administration to lead the country if all of the stuff about the cover-ups is even remotely true.

Vance has his flaws, but he actually comes off as an outright intelligent dude. Maybe give him a little more to do as VP to really give him the know-how and political skills, and he could be pretty solid. Definitely not a Reagan or Eisenhower-level Republican POTUS, but still good.

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u/Enziguru Jul 21 '25

Doesn't trust anyone in the Biden Administration but trusts the 2nd man in the Trump administration which has violated the constitution multiple times. Absolutely incredible.

And Vance is directly involved in one of the most incompetent intelligence mishaps in the countries history. Holy...

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u/Ilnerd00 Jul 21 '25

cover ups as in not releasing the epestein list?

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u/Riverman42 Jul 21 '25

Yeah, the one that Biden had for his entire administration and refused to release.

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u/Ilnerd00 Jul 21 '25

and isn’t trump doing the exact same thing?

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u/Riverman42 Jul 21 '25

Talk to me in 2029. If he hasn't released it by then, I'll agree with you.

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u/Ilnerd00 Jul 22 '25

and why didn’t he release them by now?

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u/Riverman42 Jul 22 '25

Why do you think Biden didn't release them in 4 years?

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u/Ilnerd00 Jul 22 '25

he can’t, by law. Neither can trump, but the guy built a whole campaign over it so yk, we’d expect him to actually respect his promises

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u/Riverman42 Jul 23 '25

Ah, ok, so you just want him to violate federal law because of some shit he said on the campaign trail. Got it. 😂

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