Cartoons Monday (Post-Election Edition)

Take a break from, or celebrate, as votes continue to be counted, with more than a dozen political potshots.

We will return to watching the returns after a busy weekend. The Democrats, with wins in AZ and NV, have now secured the Senate. Last Thursday morning, I was one of the first to sketch a very plausible path for them to hold on to the House and the races that I highlighted have all played out the way I predicted (and Rep. Katie Porter and others are on the verge of winning). Problem is: the Dem candidates are trailing in key remaining uncalled races in AZ and CA so it now looks likely that they will fall short by one-to-four victories, especially if (ugh) Boebert hangs on in a recount. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, if you are not a subscriber to this newsletter, now is your chance to still do it, while it is still free….

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His 2021 film, Atomic Cover-up, has been featured at a dozen festivals this year and is winning awards. His new film, The First Attack Ads, was aired on hundreds of PBS stations in October 2022 and can be viewed online here. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.