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Election Day is fast approaching here in the USA (it’s next Tuesday, November 4th). It will be a mid-term election, coming at the halfway point of the U.S. president’s 4-year term.

Here in New Hampshire we like to pretend that election campaigns are still conducted like they were 50 years ago: smiling volunteers knock on doors and hand out flyers, candidates mingle with real people, shaking hands and kissing babies.

In truth, today’s campaigns are conducted through television advertising: candidates and the special interest groups that have an ideological or financial stake in their election spend millions of dollars on ads that trash the candidate’s opponent.

That said, candidates still make the rounds here, especially in the closing days of the campaign. Mostly it’s a chance to be seen smiling and shaking hands on the six o’clock news.

I once did a comic strip about a street musician named Busker. He believed in giving political candidates a fair shake.

Note: the above gag only makes sense if you’re familiar with an item called a joy buzzer. I never had one, but when I was a kid, I used to see them advertised in every comic book I ever bought.

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