--- title: Joe Biden Voting Inspires Memes During 2018 Midterms description: Fun memes emerge when Joe Biden emerges from the voting both in the 2018 midterm elections. canonical: https://time.com/5446994/joe-biden-election-2018-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-07T02:29:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:52.246Z og:title: Joe Biden Emerges From Voting Booth and So Do the Memes og:description: It wasn't long before Reddit got its hands on the photo og:url: https://time.com/5446994/joe-biden-election-2018-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e19690555b9c8cc/69893e717cdbacfeacd5e60d/joebidenvotingphotoshopbattle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Former Vice President Joe Biden Campaigns With Sen. Claire McCaskill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Emerges From Voting Booth and So Do the Memes twitter:description: It wasn't long before Reddit got its hands on the photo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e19690555b9c8cc/69893e717cdbacfeacd5e60d/joebidenvotingphotoshopbattle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # When Joe Biden Emerges From a Voting Booth, So Do a Lot of Memes by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 7, 2018 2:29 AM UTC  BRIDGETON, MO - OCTOBER 31: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to supporters of Senator Claire McCaskill at a "get out the vote" rally which on October 31, 2018 in Bridgeton, Missouri. McCaskill is in a tight race with her Republican challenger Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) BRIDGETON, MO - OCTOBER 31: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to supporters of Senator Claire McCaskill at a "get out the vote" rally which on October 31, 2018 in Bridgeton, Missouri. McCaskill is in a tight race with her Republican challenger Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 7, 2018 2:29 AM UTC A photo of Joe Biden emerging from a voting booth in the [2018 midterm elections](http://time.com/5446274/midterm-election-results/) has become a flash point for online fun. Former Vice President [Joe Biden](http://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/) was snapped coming out of a booth at a polling place near his home in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. It wasn’t long before Reddit got its hands on the photo, and the site’s collective imagination ran wild. The snapshot features [Biden](http://time.com/5385423/joe-biden-running-pittsburgh/) parting the curtains of the booth, which was all anyone needed to have a field day tinkering. Soon enough, users began plying their photo editing skills in a good old [Photoshop battle](http://time.com/4939437/kid-astronaut-photoshop-battle/) and the contributions started rolling in. Soon enough, he was flying around in a Batman costume, roaring onstage for a one-man-show and coming out of his enchanted tree in a magical forest. > [](https://twitter.com/ArletteSaenz/status/1059832896482131968) See some of the contributions to the Joe Biden voting Photoshop battle below. Biden recently went on a campaign blitz for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, [renewing questions](http://time.com/5430304/joe-biden-trump-nevada-shredding-american-values/) about his political future. “The reason I was out there is I was requested to be out there. This is the single most important off-year election in my lifetime,” Biden [told reporters](https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Biden-This-Is-the-Single-Most-Important-Off-Year-Election-in-My-Lifetime-499840651.html), according to [the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5446994/joe-biden-election-2018-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5446994/joe-biden-election-2018-memes/"},"headline":"When Joe Biden Emerges From a Voting Booth, So Do a Lot of Memes","datePublished":"2018-11-07T02:29:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:52.246Z","description":"It wasn't long before Reddit got its hands on the photo","url":"https://time.com/5446994/joe-biden-election-2018-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Joe Biden","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e19690555b9c8cc/69893e717cdbacfeacd5e60d/joebidenvotingphotoshopbattle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e19690555b9c8cc/69893e717cdbacfeacd5e60d/joebidenvotingphotoshopbattle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former Vice President Joe Biden Campaigns With Sen. 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