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"Unless and until the federal government takes over the business of running our elections—which will, in all likelihood, never happen—the process of voting will remain the shambles we saw on November 6, 2012…"
— Jeffrey Toobin explains why voting reform may never happen: http://nyr.kr/QEulBF(Source: newyorker.com)
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Cartoon by Jack Ziegler. For more: http://nyr.kr/UDhVq4
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Cover of the Nov. 19, 2012 issue. Click-through for the story behind “Rhapsody in Blue,” the cover after Obama’s reelection from artist Mark Ulriksen: http://nyr.kr/ZfzUIQ
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On Election Day, we asked New Yorker readers to take a photograph of their voting experience and post it to our Google+ page. Click-through for a slideshow featuring a few of our favorites.
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What’s up with white women?
One of the least commented-upon aspects of the election returns is that well over fifty per cent of Caucasian females voted for Romney, too. Not as many of them as white men, of course, but a solid majority. Indeed, as a proportion of the total, more white women voted for Romney on Tuesday than voted for George W. Bush, in 2004, or for John McCain, in 2008.
John Cassidy on why white women voted for Romney, despite his recent shift to the right on women’s issues.
Photograph by Chip Litherland.
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Obama’s Political Intelligence
…the truth is that there are reasons why Obama is a phenomenon, and one of them is that his political intelligence is so keen that he knows when unreality best serves his ends. Political intelligence is as distinct and intuitive a gift as any of the other kinds of intelligence—the situational intelligence of the athlete or the analytic intelligence of the intellectual—and a large component of political intelligence lies in being faithful to your own fictions.
- Adam Gopnik. Continue reading.
Photograph by Darcy Padilla/VU.
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Well, one marathon never happened, which is a good thing. As this cartoon by Bob Eckstein indicates, what we missed because of the cancellation was well-missed…
Bob Mankoff tells the tale of two marathons— the New York City one (that never happened), and the one to the White House— in cartoons:
http://nyr.kr/VE9Ozw
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Discuss the Election with The New Yorker
At 2 P.M. E.T., Amy Davidson, John Cassidy, and Nicholas Thompson will be hosting a Google+ Hangout about the election. Join us at two as we discuss Obama’s victory, what to expect from his second term, the changes in Congress, the gay-marriage votes, and much more.
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Who Won the War on Women?
…If it hadn’t been for those antediluvian attacks on contraception, we’d be calling this the Year of the Woman. If there was a war on women this year, it looks like the women are winning.
Margaret Talbot on the female candidates in yesterday’s Senate races, and the “war on women” narrative in this election cycle: http://nyr.kr/RfWGw4
Photograph by Josh Reynolds/AP.
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"Though the day-to-day exchanges were often trivial, the underlying dynamics of the election were deadly serious, and everybody knew what they were. As both candidates repeatedly said, it was about what sort of country we want to be. Now, the American public has rendered a judgement."
— John Cassidy on Obama’s reëlection: http://nyr.kr/Tu1NX0
