WRITTEN ON November 10th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
Apart from the obvious, humour was a big winner in the US elections. We all heard about Tina Fey and the prank DJ caller. But I loved this Onion piece
Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President
…and also the Homer Simpson tries to e-vote scene (this one may get taken down as Fox can get ratty about the Simpsons being on YouTube):
Corrupt e-voting machines raise the deepest fear we can have about our democracy: that the popular vote is stolen and no-one can do anything about it. Obama’s result changed the national mood about that. Had it been worse, only the comedy would have got deep enough to temper our despair.
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