latimes.com - 11/2/2008
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Detail of the Nov. 5 "Doonesbury" comic, which predicts Barack Obama is elected.
blog.news-record.com - 10/31/2008
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The Doonesbury strip for Wednesday is set in
Iraq with his military characters sitting around a television...
as Obama is declared the next President of the United States. Risky? Reckless? Not for a cartoonist, but there's some discussion on the ...
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Doonesbury declares a winner
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/31/2008
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Networks have long taken flak for calling elections
early, but what are newspaper editors to do when...
a cartoonist "calls" an election several days in advance? That's the controversial question raised by next Wednesday's "Doonesbury," which ...
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Obama Wins? Yes, 'Doonesbury' Calls the Election!
doonesbury.com - 10/26/2008
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doonesbury.com —
"To all those who name the name of
Christ who plan to willfully disobey Him by voting...
for Obama, take warning... No, this election is not about race. It's not about the economy. It's about obeying God... Obey Him in the voting booth and out of it. If ...
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Comic strip 'Doonesbury' predicts Obama win: Newspapers split over whether to run Wednesday strip
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... risk that their presses will break down on election day. So I've been encouraging editors to choose hope over fear. And reminding them that if I'm wrong, it'll be my face that'll be covered with egg, not theirs." Trudeau said he's not worried about the comic if his prediction is wrong. "I'd be a lot more worried about the country than the strip. One reporter has already suggested I just carry on with an alternative universe in which Obama wins. It's not a crazy idea."... Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-doonesbury1-...
Will Doonesbury 'Obama Victory' Wednesday Strip Become the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' of 2008?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... It has become perhaps the most famous political photo of all time. President Harry Truman, on the heels of defeating opponent Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential campaign, gleefully holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the overconfident but incorrect headline of "Dewey Defeats Truman." Will history repeat itself this Wednesday when the Doonesbury comic strip is published which assumes that Barack Obama will be victorious? Here is the story from the Los Angeles Times written by Yvonne Villarreal (emphasis mine): ...
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