The Art Of Politics: Pre-Election Special
by Richard Bruton
The Art of Politics — proving that a picture can be way more powerful than 1,000 words, as the world’s best political cartoonists sharpen their pencils and get going … and we’re doing a Pre-Election Special…
Now, if you have to ask ‘Which election?’ you may have been living under a rock for the past few years. It’s the election. A US election that seems to have the entire world holding its breath … perfectly illustrated by Ella Baron here…
We’ve had the lead-up, we’ve had the debates, we’ve had the surprise dropping out of President Joe Biden, giving Vice President Kamala Harris the chance to make the move up, to become the first black woman to become president. And we’ve had, in the opposite, red corner, Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
Official election day is today, Tuesday 5th November. But America had been going to the polls for weeks before that, with early voting and mail-in ballots open in many states.
David Rowe on the two candidates…
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So, with all these great cartoonists doing great work… it’s time for an Art of Politics Pre-Election Special…
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America and the world holds its breath…
And Ann Telnaes on the nervousness in America…
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America divided – in an election where so many votes don’t count..
Morten Morland on a divided America
Matt Wuerker illustrates the unique nature of the US Elections, with the majority of states always going either red or blue and only the few sing states that actually decide who wins the White House…
Trump gets the usual kicking from the political cartoonists…
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And Harris comes under fire from the right-wing/Republican cartoonists…
Always interesting though that the Republican/right-wing cartoonists always come from the US. Outside the US, there’s a real consensus that looks at America thinking of electing Trump and shakes a collective head. But here’s a (very) little of the Kamala-bashing…
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Election fraud? – No, absolutely not. Won’t stop MAGA going nuts over it though…
Despite there being absolutely no evidence of any major election fraud in American elections — incident rates between 0.0003% and 0.0025% (The Brennan Centre) — that hasn’t stopped Trump and the MAGA extremists from pre-emptively claiming it’s happening/going to happen.
PX Molina on Trump dusting off his favourite excuse…
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The issues … yes, there are issues…
As America seems to be voting along gender lines, there’s a lot of cartoonists focusing on the threat to women by the possible result and another four years of Trump and a very right-wing Supreme Court…
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But will the results actually bring it to an end — recent history says no…
Morten Morland absolutely nails it — when it happened in 2020, the questioning over the elections and the subsequent riot/insurgency at the Capitol building on Jan 6 2021 was a surprise. This time there’s an expectation that the fallout and the legal battles will be happening right from day 1.
