Funny but…
No one should be declaring any winners before election day. Right now if we lose I am blaming it all on Garry Tradeau. With that said, this is a funny story. My favorite part is the McCain camp’s zinger of a comeback in graph 4.
Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” is predicting a victory for Barack Obama, and some newspaper editors are debating how to handle the comic without knowing the results of Tuesday’s election.
Wednesday’s strip is set in Iraq and features military characters huddled around a television that proclaims: “And it’s official — Barack Obama has won. …”
In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, Trudeau said newspaper editors should run the strip because “polling data gives McCain a 3.7 percent chance of victory. There’s a greater risk that their presses will break down on election day. “I’m wrong, it’ll be my face that’ll be covered with egg, not theirs,” he said. “One reporter has already suggested I just carry on with an alternative universe in which Obama wins. It’s not a crazy idea. …”
From the John McCain camp, spokesman Tucker Bounds said: “We hope the strip proves to be as predictive as it is consistently lame.”
Lame. Seriously, that is what you came up with. What a wordsmith.