This long election season is finally winding down, and tonight is the final Presidential debate between opponents Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Since our readers have enjoyed the previous open threads we’ve done for earlier debates, here’s an open thread for tonight’s event for everyone to “debate the debate” LIVE.
To start the discussion, here’s my new cartoon about the state of the race. It seems like Obama and Romney are all locked up. Will tonight’s debate change things?
Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Will Biden say something crazy? Comment away below!
Here a cool video of our talented young cartoonist Adam Zyglis, the staff cartoonist at the Buffalo News. He was interviewed on CNN by Karin Caifa during this years Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention that took place in Washington, D.C. last month.
Since we have so many devoted readers with as many opinions about politics as our cartoonists (and since it went so well during the first Presidential Debate), here’s an open thread for all of you to have at it LIVE during tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Here are five cartoons from our archives about Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog that was a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and wife Vicki. At the time, the Obama administration was caught up in a scandal of several staffers owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes, so you see that cropping up in a couple of the cartoons:
Daryl Cagle / NBCNews.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)Jeff Parker / Florida Today (click to view more cartoons by Parker)Joe Heller / Green Bay Press-Gazette (click to view more cartoons by Heller)Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)Dave Granlund / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Granlund)
After President Obama’s miserable, poll-shifting performance in last week’s debate with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Democrats are put in the akward position of hoping for a strong performance in Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate from gaffe-machine Joe Biden.
Ever since Clint Eastward wandered onto the stage of the Republican National Convention with an empty chair, cartoonists have co-opted the visual imagery as a tool in their election cartoons. So it comes as no surprise that after last week’s Presidential debate, the empty chair would rear it’s ugly head again to represent President Obama, this time as an aloof participant in a debate performance with his challenger, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
So when five or more cartoonists draw the same gag, we refer to it as a “Cartoon Yahtzee,” and as always, there is a basic rule of thumb to go by: if one other guy drew it, he’s a plagiarist; if five other guys drew it, they’re hacks; if a dozen other guys drew it, they are honoring a tradition.
John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Darkow)Gary Varvel / Indianapolis Star (click to view more cartoons by Varvel)Michael Ramirez / Investors Business Daily (click to view more cartoons by Ramirez)Bob Gorrell (click to view more cartoons by Gorrell)
The final cartoon isn’t a political cartoon per se – it comes from the cover of The New Yorker and is drawn by illustrator Barry Blitt. But as Blitt often uses ideas and concepts that stem from the world of political cartooning, it’s included here:
Here a cool video of our talented young cartoonist 
