Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 05, 2001
January 04, 2001
January 06, 2001
Transcript:
Rick: One more dangling chad ballot for Gore...at this rate, he could win. And yet he lost. For the world's leading democracy, how strange is that? Mark: I know. You have to wonder whether the president-"elect" really grasps the implications. Cowboy hat/Bush Jr.: I understand democracy! In a democracy, the supreme branch decides!
Hmm. With around a third of your electoral base voting for a president, maybe you should look at the larger picture. And no, I am not saying the UK is any better. We have just voted in a landslide where the governing party actually polled LESS votes for themselves than the last election. Liberal democracy really is broken.