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"AND DO YOU, JANE VOTER, TAKE THIS PACKAGE —"
On the eve of the 1968 presidential election, Herblock believed that the Republican Party candidate, Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994), had the election in the bag. Planting a frown on the woman's face, Herblock suggests women found Nixon distasteful. Indeed, women favored the Democratic Party candidate Hubert Humphrey, so Nixon's margin was a narrow half-million votes. The fractious nature of the Democratic Party as well as third-party candidate George Wallace drawing off the traditionally Democratic Southern vote led to Nixon's stunning Electoral College victory.
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"And Do You, Jane Voter, Take This Package —," 1968. Published in the Washington Post, October 31, 1968. |