Existing comment:
"WHEW! CAN’T WE FIND SOME OTHER ROUTE?"
Finding state primaries and party conventions anti-democratic for candidates and voters alike, Herblock was an advocate for direct election. In this cartoon, he depicted two people having evaded the clutches of a tiger and a bear, only to reach the pinnacle of the "Presidential Election System," to meet an angry dinosaur labelled "Electoral College." In his book, Herblock Gallery, he made it clear that both voters and candidates suffered from the ". . . state political-system peculiarities, national-convention circuses, smoke-filled rooms, money-filled campaign coffers and an ancient and creaking electoral procedure."
"Whew! Can’t We Find Some Other Route?" 1968. Published in the Washington Post, September 6, 1968. |