Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 01, 2010
October 31, 2010
November 02, 2010
Transcript:
Mark: Hey, Roland, heard you got a sit-down with Bush 43 on his new book. Roland: Sweet, huh? And we beat the "Today" show by a week! We'll have the interview up tomorrow night! Mark: Wow. I wonder why he gave Fox first shot. Roland: I dunno. Guess he owed us after all the years we shilled for him. Mark: What? Fox News shilled for Bush? Roland: Yeah. It was subtle, but you could tell.
psychward, if you don’t see something seriously sleazy about one candidate putting up another with opposing views to his own to try and siphon off votes from his main competitor, I shudder to think what sort of ethics you’d expect from the persons you elect to represent you. A person who would do that obviously believes that his political stance is not sufficient to win the election at hand, and therefore works to subvert the will of the majority of voters in his district. I’d say the same about any Republican candidate who did the same thing. And of course we do have an historical basis to look at how elections can be influenced by third party candidates. When President Clinton was elected over President Bush (the elder) he was elected with a plurality of votes and not a majority. One could truly say in that election that the majority of voters voted against President Clinton, (and at the same time of course, say a majority also voted against President Bush), but the major difference in that election is that Mr. Clinton ostensibly had nothing to do with Ross Perot’s candidacy.
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