(The Hill) FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on Friday mocked President-elect Donald Trump’s call for expanded nuclear capabilities by predicting what all-out nuclear war could do to the electoral map.

"Here's what the electoral map would look like if only people who weren't burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted,” he tweeted.

The punchline: A map showing only Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii surviving. Silver’s tweet had nearly 3,000 retweets an hour after posting.

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