"This Modern World" provides a number of scenes from Campaign 2016. The key message of today's 'toon comes in the next-to-last panel with Dontald T. (for "The") Chump blathering that if he loses (hope, hope) the 2016 election, it will be the result of "election fraud" that would enable "Crooked Hilary" to steal a "rigged" election (via voter fraud). Chump's fantasy is driven by the Stupid losses to POTUS 44 in 2008 (The Geezer) and 2012 (Big Love); the Stupids were not losers because of a lack of votes — the real explanation for the 2008 and 2012 losses is African American voter fraud. This vision is grounded in racism. If this is (fair & balanced) political crackpottery, so be it.
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(Still More) Election Phenomena
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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