Sunday, January 8, 2012

the morning after

The Morning After

This cartoon, illustrated by Clay Bennett, depicts a distraught looking woman looking at a note apparently left by her "one-night stand," the GOP. In using a common cultural reference (the morning after) as a metaphor for the GOP's treatment of Iowa, the cartoonist satirizes the nature of the presidential primaries. The cartoonist seems to be echoing the sentiment that the Republican party and the media spend so much time fixated on certain states with early primaries and caucuses, and yet in the big scheme of things it's artificial and means virtually nothing.

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