Interesting news from the LATimes today. Gary Truedau is the creator of the comic Doonsebury. He penned a strip to run on Wednesday that predicts an Obama win. The article is about editors across the country hemming and hawing as they decide whether or not to run it. (Since the comics pags goes to press in the afternoon, there’s no way of knowing if it will be accurate or not, for sure.) I like the story just because it is an interesting take on the election and as Trudeau himself says, he’s putting himself on the line, not editors.

The editor of the LATimes talks about his thoughts on the subject on his blog. He’s got the right answer, I think, and Trudeau makes an excellent point in update response:

If Obama wins, I’m in the flow and commenting on a phenomenon. If he loses, it’ll be a massive upset, and the goofy misprediction of a comic strip will be pretty much lost in the uproar.

But my favorite bit of the piece is the reaction of the McCain camp (never mind the fact that they even GAVE a reaction comment):

From the John McCain camp, spokesman Tucker Bounds said: “We hope the strip proves to be as predictive as it is consistently lame.”

That’s not pathetically angry at all, is it? Kinda sums it all up in a nutshell.