This is not the United States

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If Mr. Carson wants to win New Hampshire, he better figure out where it is, first. From his campaign:

[Historic NY]

1. Is he using FOX NEWs graphics....

[lame54]

2. Republicans saying NO! - What a shock

[KamaAina]

3. It looks like the Old Man of the Mountain came back from the great beyond and ate New Hampshire

[VMA131Marine]

4. New Hampshire is there

it's just been displaced North and East, along with CT, RI, MA, and ME

[KamaAina]

5. But the void where it should be kind of looks like the Old Man

which is on the back of the NH state quarter.

[hifiguy]

7. I see NH, but where's Vermont?

[Journeyman]

6. How do you do that? It must be sabotage, for such a map would be stock graphic . . .

I'm a graphic designer, and if I were placing a map like that in a graphic, I wouldn't draw it -- there are too many good maps available from reputable stock suppliers. I've owned the packet of maps I'd use for this since 1989, when I began doing computer graphics. Furthermore, what makes it even less likely there'd be a mistake is that I'd have to color each of the polygon shapes for the states, so I'd have to have a second map to compare to in order to know which states would be Red, which Blue.

I suspect Carson's staff is beginning to turn on him. Sabotage seems the likeliest answer for such an inexplicable revision.

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8. At first I thought they were combining two printed pages

and didn't get the offset right, but I am having a lot of trouble imagining how that would take place. Basically it looks like they had a photoshop problem and didn't notice it, but that doesn't quite explain the thing to the top right of Vermont.

Long story short, I have no idea what they were thinking.

Reminds me of a donut shop in, I think, Petaluma, CA, with a big map of the United States painted on the wall and Maine labeled "Main", although this is worse - doesn't even look like New England.