Voter

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• Two people, having a conversation
• The people are talking over a cup of coffee the one lady say 18 percent geez and they guy asks is that the credit card rate now. but she says no its the voter turnout rate.
• The message of this cartoon is how low the voter turnout in the U.S is. only 18% of the possible voters came out to actually vote. 
• This correlates exactly with our class discussion on VPA and VEA. and only 18% is an extremely low percentage. It makes it worst because it was the primary election it was no normal election it was the biggest election of the year and only 18% voted.
• no satire or irony was used just straight facts.

Coffee house

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• Hippies, young voters, coffee shop
• The hippies are influencing the young voters to join and are trying to create a good relationship with the young voters.
• The message of this cartoon is about how the candidates don't communicate with the young voters and how they should communicate with them. In order to get their support and increase voter turnout.
• This relates to our class discussion on ways to increase voter turnout. One is by getting a good relationship with the young voters. Also it shows reason for why the turnout is so low because the older voters don't relate to the younger generation on certain issues.
• This cartoon uses satire because its interesting who they use the hippies to symbolize the views of the older people compare to the younger people of today.

Protection

• Once again no Caption
• You have a man and women in bed smoking.
• There  is a man and a women in bed smoking while having a conversation which you could infer is after sex. The girl is thanking the marriage protection amendment while the man is like yea me and my wife voted for it. So you can infer that the lady in the bed is not his wife and he is having an affair.
• The message of this cartoon could be how people take advantage of the law and vote for things that only help their dirty deeds. Also on could just say this may be why some people don't vote because they have other important things to do.
• This relates to our class discussion about voter participation if people look at it the second way I interpreted the cartoon.
• I don't really see any satire or any symbolism I just found this cartoon funny. Also I think it had a funny way of expressing voter participation.
  
  

Motion sensor Voting

• No Dialogue in this cartoon with very limited words.
• It's and elder man and a voting station.
• Their are older voters standing at the voter booths and the sign reads "move left or right" and is a motion sensor voting machine.
• The message of this cartoon is the advancement of technology in this day and age. This advancement makes it difficult for the older voters who may not be int ouch with technology like the younger generation. So this can hurt the older voters.
• This relates to our class discussions about voter participation. This is a pure example on how current and future machines will hurt voters. Older people may not understand the machines and may vote wrong or just decide not to vote because of the confusion for them.
• This cartoon uses a large amount of exaggeration. They put a motion sensitive machine to exaggerate the advancement of technology. Which stresses the view point of how older voters will be at a disadvantage.

Voter I.D

• No type of dialogue only one poster with words.
• Its uncle Sam is supposed to be a voter and a lady checking id's.
• Uncle Sam is a voter coming to the voting pool about to get his ID checked but doesn't seem to have it and the lady checking just has and oh well no vote for you kind of look while pointing to the sign that reads "Have voter I.D ready"
• The message of this cartoon is the harmful effects of having this bill and how it could decrease the voter turnout n how people won't have a fair vote. This cartoon make me think that the artist is a liberal due to the position he is depicting in the cartoon.
• This relates heavily to of class discussion not only on voter participation but the voter I.D bill. We have been talking and debating about this subject hard in class. With Philadelphia just passing this bill this cartoon depicts the views of most minorities and democrats.
• This cartoon uses satire a good amount. It uses Uncle Sam who is suppose to represent the people and or federal government so it like you could replace uncle Sam with any minority and it will display the same message. But it makes it more eye catching to the person by using Good Ole Uncle Sam.

Crowd Control

• No Caption only a sign, and dialogue.
• In this cartoon you have a security guard, sign, and newspaper. The artist is very moderate it seems.
• The security guard is holding up a sign that reads "Election here today" then he makes a smart comic about non-lethal crowd control. While all at the same time you have a thrown newspaper on the floor whose headlines read Low voter turnout.
• The message of this cartoon is that their is a extremely low voter turnout in America which is shown by the thrown newspaper. The guard is sarcastically stating basically if you want to control a crowd just put up a sign that says election here. You will have people running or way or not showing up at all.
• It relates to our in class discussion on voter participation. Also it relates to current day problems with U.S low voter turnout compared to other countries.
• This cartoon uses both satire and irony. It uses satire on the basis of over dramatically expressing the low voter turnout. It uses irony because the officer is saying non-lethal crowd control by using a sign which is ironic because people use signs usually are used to draw people in not scare them away.

Reasons People Don't Vote

• Their is no caption only dialogue
• In this cartoon you have a conservative voter and the republican elephant. The artist means  that maybe the elephant represents a republican candidate.
•  The republican elephant is having a conversation with a conservative voter.The elephant knows that the voter doesn't really agree with his beliefs/actions but assumes the voter will still vote for him because he won't change party's. But the voter informs the elephant he will just stay home instead of voting.
• The message of this cartoon is another one of the many reason the voter turnout is so low. The fact that voters don't agree with what their candidate is striving to achieve and doesn't believe in just voting for a party because thats who they are affiliated with. So they don't go to vote purposely on election day.
• This relates to one of the many possible reasons that the U.S voter turnout is so low. Also relates to our in class discussions about voter participation and why the U.S participation is so low compared to other countries.
• This cartoon dosen't hold much satire.You could possibly say it uses satire by using the elephant instead of a person to represent the republicans.

Low Voter Turnout

• The caption says "Something tells me they're expecting a low turnout." which in my opinion these words are being used because their is such a lower voter percentage and is trying to emphasize his point.
• Their is a phone booth that says polling station. He is being sarcastic about how big the station is.
• In the cartoon a couple is walking bath a phone booth which has a sign on it that reads "Polling Station" and the lady is commenting on the sign.
• The message of this cartoon is that there is such a low voter turn out. Based on voter eligibility and voter age. He is trying to stress the fact of the difference between the people who vote and the total number of people can vote.
• It relates to our most recent class discussion on VEP and VAP so that's why I choose this cartoon because it relates to our class discussion.
• This cartoon uses irony because the artist used a small phone booth as a polling station which is usually a big building which can hold a lot of people who come to vote. So its ironic how the artist uses the phone booth which usually can only hold one person to represent the lower voter turnout.

Voters Participation

• The caption says "at least somebody is following you." i think this is referring to the loss of voters for the democratic party which has allowed the republicans to take over the senate. 
• The cartoon uses the grim reaper which is funny because it like the democrats have loss its stored faith from voters.
• In the cartoon the democratic donkey is being followed by the grim reaper and is asking for him to stop following him but the grim reaper is being  sarcastic with his smart remark
• The cartoon in my opinion this cartoons talks about both the faith the voters have loss in Obama because he hasn't lived up to what he said he would do. Even though he really is trying but the house is mainly republicans and won't pass his bills. 
• This relates to class because it shows one reason why voter participation is lacking. No one will vote for you if they don't even have faith in your bills.
• The cartoon has a lot of irony because its ironic how they use the grim reaper the bringer of "Death" to follow the donkey. So some would interpret that it means the coming of the death to the democratic party.

Non-Voters

• The caption says " since we didn't bother voting, no one we voted for lost." This caption was use to depict the mindset of many people who don't vote now a days.
• You have a T.V, elderly couple. I think the artist use these symbols to portray a section of non-voters who have the kind of message that voting doesn't effect them.
• The elderly couple is watching television at home while sitting on the couch. Probably a broadcastong about the current election.
• The message of this cartoon is that people in todays society don't really bother with voting. They think it is irrelevant to them and that voting won't help them.
• This cartoon to relates to the lack of voter participation of todays society. thats all we have been talking about in class for the past week is how people don't try to vote especially younger people. while older people who may want to vote sometimes can't get taken to a voting both for several reasons.
• Irony is used very well in this cartoon. one reason is because you usually see the older people become more politically active as the grow older. But in this cartoon its the older people who don't care to vote which is usually the portraial of the younger generation.

Election Day

• Titled Election day. There are no captions
• Not really many symbols in this cartoon. In the cartoon there is two lines toward the building one under "voter here" and the other under "Don't vote here."
• It seems like in my opinion that it is election day and their is two lines one leading to voting and the other towards not voting. The line for not voting is extremely longer than the voting one.
• I think the message of this cartoon is the lack of voter participation in this country. It is to show the drastic distance between people who participate in voting and thous who don't. Also how so many people have an unheard voice in this country for whatever reasons they have. 
• It has alot to do with the current days situation. where young people don't reallly vote because they don't fell they are being represented. We have been disscussing this alot in class. On the facts that so many people choose not to vote or just are to busy to go to the voting boths on election day.
• This cartoon use alot of satire in order to get its point across. The make the lines drasticly different to point out how big a difference between the two categories. Even tho it seems so exzagerated in the cartoon.
  

Supporting Obama



• This cartoon didn't have a title nor caption.
• The older voters are wearing pins to show support while the younger generation is wearing hoodies to show their support. Which shows a difference between older and younger voters. how the times have changed and become more interactive with society. Also they are standing in front of Lincoln's memorial
• The older voter and the younger voter are having a conversation on the experience of Obama. 
• The older people are questioning voting for Obama because of his lack of experience in government office. While the younger voters are being relaxed like "it worked out once before so why you worried about it now" referring to Abraham Lincoln's election which i  think is why they are standing in front of his memorial. The author has a moderate ideology their is no sway towards neither party.
• It relates to our in-class discussion on voter participation. It shows the difference between younger and older voters. Which sheds some insight on why some people choose to vote the way they do.
• Satire influences the cartoon a lot. irony is used in the young voters comment in front of the Lincoln memorial.