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Last year, due to some technical problems, we ran a sort of scavenger hunt on the Fourth of July. We still have some of the responses to that, and we absolutely WILL get to them. The DNC will be less boring than usual, but it will probably still be kind of boring, and we want to balance that out with some stuff that is more fun and light. There are also a bunch of holidays and other things coming up where it will be good to have some material on tap.
We intended to do v2.0 on the Fourth of July this year, but the wild and crazy month got in the way of that. We're still going to move forward, and that process begins now. We'll give one task for interested folks to work on right now, and three others over the next couple of weeks.
Incidentally, we know that some readers are disdainful of stuff like this. Our Saturday question of the week this week, "What should Tim Walz' Secret Service code name be?" is clearly kind of silly. And yet, it's generated more than 500 responses. Clearly, many readers do like the lighter material, which does not surprise us, given how heavy politics can be sometimes. Anyhow, if this is not your cup of tea, then please just skip it.
Anyhow, here is the first task. Imagine a reference work entitled The Encyclopedia of American Politics. Communicate the name of any entry in this hypothetical book (a name, a group, a concept, a key event, whatever) using ONLY emojis.
For example:
OR
for "Republican Party."
And:
OR
for "Democratic Party."
You can send things in emoji form, or as JPG/TIF/GIF, etc. The advantage to the latter approach is that it reduces the likelihood of something getting screwed up, and it also allows the use of a wider range of emojis and emoji-style clip art, including emojis that have been retired.
Send your submissions (as many as you wish) to comments@electoral-vote.com, preferably with subject line "Emojis." We look forward to seeing what readers come up with. (Z)