Do minor inaccuracies about politics/history in news, movies or TV shows bother you?

[Ferguson97]

- House of Cards claiming there's a special election for governor of Pennsylvania in 2013. There are no special elections for governor in that state. After Jim Matthews' resignation, his lt. governor would just have taken over until the 2014 election (if 2013 was necessary, why didn't they use Virginia instead?). Also, their 2016 map is laughable. I think they also got it wrong that Will Conway was elected governor of New York in 2012, though New York doesn't elect the governor in presidential years.

If we're looking for inaccuracies about politics in House of Cards, then these barely even register. For one, if we take the idea that the show's world is supposed to be close to our own seriously (for some reason), then Frank Underwood, a white Southern Democrat who loves the idea of taking on teachers' unions and 'reforming' Social Security, would have lost no later than 2010 and would presumably now be a very frustrated lobbyist for Lockheed Martin.

Another thing in House of Cards that was just ridiculous was when Frank got the House Republicans and Congressional Black Caucus to team up to usurp the Speaker of the House to vote for a different Democrat?

Just laughably absurd on so many levels.


And this is a minor thing but in Ozark, Wendy repeatedly calls Missouri a swing state, and the show takes place in the late 2010s.

[Ferguson97]

When there's election maps that make no sense, that pisses me off so much.

Yeah, in that respect, Veep's election map was decent (although WTF Delaware??)


Compare this to the 2006 West Wing election:

That's even worse than the 2016 House of Cards map, lmao:

Tbf didn’t Frank only win TN/WV because of actual vote manipulation? Like they faked bomb threats at precincts? It’s not totally ridiculous if you flip those to Conway.