In light of Monday’s Iowa caucuses, Twitter users turned to social media to share thoughts about the 2016 presidential campaign using the hashtag #ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike.

The hashtag showed what people where expecting from the US elections. The hashtag was used to express optimism, pessimism, hope, fear, for saying that it’s time for change and a concern that change has gone too far. While humour was the tool used, the prevalent theme was despair.

@JohnFugelsang: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike Vietnam because Bush, Cheney, & Romney support it but aren’t aren’t in it.

@PoliticsJim: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike All other elections where both sides buy power and influence.”


@MaiDindu: “#ThisYearsElectionIsALotLike awakening to the reality of #WhiteGenocide.”

@Ian56789: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike all the others. Candidates should be forced to wear corporate logos.”

@TerpsLove: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike the de-evolution of society.”

@TopazSLC: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike high school - the bully, the class clown, rich kid with benefits, the pseudo-intellectual, the token minorities.”

@PatriotTrumpet: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike deciding at which used car lot to purchase your vehicle.”

@ColeMcNeely: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike “Whose Line is it Anyway?” where everything is made up & the points don’t matter.”

@TheWalkingAbed: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike Bill Cosby. If you fall sleep on it, you’re definitely going to be taken advantage of.”

@Kyozamiss: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike watching a crappy TV show that gets worse as the season goes on, but you want to see how it ends.”

@anthonypermal: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike X Files. All the male candidates think they’ve got a clue; top woman contender actually makes the most sense.”

@Jenn_Abrams: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike this”

@MattRodger: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike ‘The tortoise and the hare’.”

@TheWoollyArmy: “Vote me in and I promise to remove ALL #LLAMAS from our shores... #DonaldAlpacaYourBags #ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike”

@BlueVino: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike all the other ones where we are allowing gross immorality to reign.”

@echolman: “#ThisYearsElectionIsAlotLike Bad. It’s bad. There’s nothing good about it. It’s like that.”

@cassandra17lina: “#ThisYearsElectionIsALotLike what happens when ‘obstruction’ is your only strategy.”