Go, Look: Election Day 2006 ‘Toons

Click through the Steve Sack cartoon at left for one of Daryl Cagle's invaluable round-ups of editorial cartoons by subject matter: this one on Elections 2006. What's interesting to me is that the big story -- past the general disillusionment cartoons like Sack's that are seemingly becoming more popular with every vote -- was a process story, that of the undependable voting machine. There's a nicely written, linked-out piece from Jim Borgman making the rounds about the practical difficulties of doing a cartoon on election results, but it strikes me that doing more general cartoons or taking on overriding issues might be a safer bet for papers that a) might not have a hotly contested election (my area doesn't) and b) want to avoid further damaging its relationship to readers after a sensitive loss. I watched and read a lot of national coverage, and it doesn't seem like they were too eager to dive into local issues of contention, either.
 
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