In his nationally syndicated Doonesbury strip, Saranac Lake native Garry Trudeau is assuming a win by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
The cartoonist has drawn four strips already, slated to be published next week across the U.S., that assume John McCain will lose.<\/p>\n
In an email sent to the St. Petersburg Times, in Florida, Trudeau wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cI never considered NOT writing about the election, but to avoid lameness, I had to predicate it on an outcome.”<\/p>\n
Trudeau went on to say that an Obama loss would be such big news that his inaccurate cartoons would be largely ignored.<\/p>\n
“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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, some newspapers are balking at printing the comic strip in its usual slot.<\/p>\n