Saranac Lake’s Gary Trudeau calls election for Obama

In his nationally syndicated Doonesbury strip, Saranac Lake native Garry Trudeau is assuming a win by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The cartoonist has drawn four strips already, slated to be published next week across the U.S., that assume John McCain will lose.

In an email sent to the St. Petersburg Times, in Florida, Trudeau wrote:

“I never considered NOT writing about the election, but to avoid lameness, I had to predicate it on an outcome.”

Trudeau went on to say that an Obama loss would be such big news that his inaccurate cartoons would be largely ignored.

“If Obama wins, I’m in the flow and commenting on a genuine phenomenon. If I’m wrong, there’ll be such a global uproar that a goofy call in a comic strip isn’t going to be much noticed.”

Still, some newspapers are balking at printing the comic strip in its usual slot.

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http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2008/10/st-pete-times-t.html