best political cartoon ever

[jwgh]

Find all of the things that are wrong with this:



I will give you one for free: there appears to be an extra state between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

(Saw this on The Comc Curmudgeon's column on Wonkette.)

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[twillis.livejournal.com]

That Atkins diet thing is really working for Missouri.

[jwgh]

Indeed. Rhode Island appears to have eaten Cape Cod, though.

I also applaud Florida's new wind-swept look.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I like Bart Wisconsimpson.

Also, Kansas and Nebraska seem to have slimmed down a bit, which means road trips in Political Cartoon America are probably more bearable.

[cpr94.livejournal.com]

So, does anybody have any idea whatsoever what the cartoonist was trying to say? Or why that graphic is supposed to convey it? All I can think is that California has a very big influence in politics. But, uh, very poor way to say that.

It's also a ridiculous sentiment if you want to be fair. California has a huge influence because it has a huge population. Texas does too. Of course the sparsely populated states collectively have more influence than the heavily populated ones, as memorialized in the Onion's article, "My Vote Cancels Out Y'all's".

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

My guess was "SPEAKER PELOSI OMG!!!"

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Nest Virgarylandelawarsey.

Long Island has been pushed inland, and is a separate state from New York because there's a border.

Some kind of giant carnivorous beast has ripped away Upper Michigan, shredding the top of Wisconsin in the process.

New Mexico has taken part of Oklahoma's handle because the artist remembered it wasn't perfectly rectangular, but couldn't remember where.

Something has gone awry at Hoover Dam.

And, I must point out, California is abnormally large. I'll accept that it was a deliberate joke if anyone can tell me what the joke is.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

As the linked article notes, Maryland has eaten West Virginia, Delwur, and New Jersey. Also, DC. Looks like statehood for Long Island-- hopefully the capital will be in Brooklyn. Florida is sufferent some erectile dysfuction on the peninsula, and a giant boner along I-10 on the panhandle, the south got a brand new cotton-peach-tobacco state between George and Alabama. Rhode Island has risen out of the sea. Hmm, looks like West Memphis has moved to Missouri, because Arkansas no longer borders Tennessee sufficiently. New Mexico's little tail migrated from the Mexican border and decided to bully Oklahoma's panhandle instead.

In the balance, the artist added a mideastern state and a southern state, and eliminated an Appalachian state, a garden state, and a credit-card state, and the nation's capital. And did something to California that I can't quite identify. Effect on the midterm elections: Answer hazy, ask again later.

Still, if I could do that without looking at a map, I'd count myself lucky. (though as a Virginia boy, I'd never slight WV and DE or any other state in order to privilege Maryland!

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Yep, either the artist was working from a map -- and botched it badly -- or was working from memory -- and did a damn sight better than I would have, though I would've made different mistakes -- or was having a good time driving people like us into a frenzy.

But drawing a cartoon that had an actual point probably would have been a better use of the artist's time.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all counts. I can't make sense of it, unless it's suggesting that California is vestigal or necrotic somehow and should be snipped off the nation before it swells up and bursts!

I have no idea.

[jarai.livejournal.com]

Upper Peninsula Michigan must've left for Canada... either that or it turned into the new state between Georgia and Alabama (or the one between Ohio and Pennsylvania as jwgh mentioned, but probably it'd want to go somewhere warmer).

[psapph0.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of the song "Southern California want to be Western New York" by Dar Williams

[stacebass.livejournal.com]

Arizona's the shape of Utah. WTF? We're not that Mormon.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there's a swastika in there.