1960 election day comics

Ethan Persoff put together a funny/scary set of Election Day Comics from 1960. Make sure the "dumb blonde" in the office doesn't take your vote today!

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

I look at that character and can only imagine him singing,

“I could while away the elections,
Makin’ my selections,
If I only had a brain…”
- http://ravenlunatick.wordpress.com/ ravenlunatick
  
  LOL! My first thought was that he was going to set himself on fire with that cigarette.
- pjcamp
  
  My first thought was why did he choose a Republican brain?
big ryan

yeah im trying to figure out what the bag head is supposed to mean, a scarecrow is the easy assumption but i have a feeling its some kind of more obscure reference to something that i don’t know about
- theophrastvs
  
  It‘s in the bag.
  - acerplatanoides
    
    I thought that too. He’s “In the bag, man”
- Nash Rambler
  
  I thought it was a reference to the “straw man” concept of politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
acerplatanoides

The second comic (the red one) is even more surreal with it’s talk of unemployment benefits and the president acting to ensure the right to vote is not infringed.
- Boundegar
  
  And what was that part about “fair labor policies?” No wonder that one is printed in red, comrade!
  - nowimnothing
    
    The orange one goes even further, good roads, good hospitals, nice playgrounds, clean cities.
    Maybe that golden age of capitalism was just a bit more socialist than they have led us to believe. /snark
blueelm

Wow. People in the 50′s and 60′s were polluted with socialism. They even supported women’s votes! OMG! The GOP has it’s work cut out. Getting things back to 1852 is going to be so hard with all this pinko propaganda.
- big ryan
  
  yeah but a womans vote was either a ‘dumb blonde’ or your wifes vote
  - http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
    
    That’s no dumb blonde…that’s Carol Channing!
tomrigid

Man with white hood and noose tells me to vote.

Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Dr King and the rest…thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you.
niktemadur

…or the dumb blonde in the office

Damn. Then all the guys went for a mid-town three martini lunch.
Nash Rambler

I laughed about “a politician – honest or crooked!” Then I tried to make some argument about shades of grey, but realized I couldn’t. Politicians really do only come in those two flavors, don’t they.
nyrge

Yet another “Bob” cameo, secretly tipping us off to the Truth.
Ito Kagehisa

“While all you stay-at-homes sat comfortably, your future was being decided by a handful of people who program voting machines!”
chellberty

made the second one just one step Politically Correct.
http://northierthanthou.com/ northierthanthou

Yeah, just a little creepy.