Ben Carson Campaign's Map Placed a Bunch of States in the Wrong Spots

Ben Carson tweeted out a map with a bunch of states in the completely wrong place last night.

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Somehow, Ben Carson's tweet in support of blocking refugees fleeing war-torn Syria from entering the U.S. managed to be even more ridiculous than it was infuriating. 

It had nothing to do with the content of the message, but everything to do with the map his campaign designed to go along with it. 

Notice anything weird, like the entire northeastern United States looking nothing like the actual entire northeastern United States? 

When one of the front-runners in the campaign to become president of the United States tweets out an inaccurate map of the United States, you know Twitter is about to go in on him. 

Just got Ben Carson's brand new map of the U.S. pic.twitter.com/jzhJ9ASXWJ

— Mrs McG (@mrsmcglover) November 18, 2015

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So Maine is now in Canada, New York has way more beaches, and Vermont has beach at all (they're probably loving that). 

So many questions! Actually, wait, no, not that many, but there is one big one: how does this possibly happen?

But hey, before you go getting all high and mighty, let's not forget about the many, many times that John Oliver owned you on geography lessons on Last Week Tonight

Ironically, the Washington Post points out that the screw-up happened during Geography Awareness Week, a week when National Geographic points out that as recently as 2006 half of young Americans "couldn't place New York on a map of the United States."

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