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    Hang on to your hats! We're about to enter the official campaign season for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and I've found a fun drawing to introduce a discussion of third party candidates. I was actually doing a search on the keyword chaos, and this came up! Can you identify the politicians without reading the item description (answer key below)?

    Simply arithmetic

    Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935, artist

    Created/published 1912

    https://www.loc.gov/item/2017646676/ 

    Drawing shows the hair of Senator Robert M. La Follette, the lower half of William Jennings Bryan's face, a donkey labeled "Third Party Talk", the pince-nez of Theodore Roosevelt, the lower half of William Howard Taft's face, perspiring, a mortarboard labeled "P" representing Woodrow Wilson, and the top half of Eugene Deb's head in a series of mathematical equations. First equation: La Follette + Bryan = 3rd party talk, second equation: La Follette + Roosevelt = trouble for Taft, third equation: Wilson + Bryan = trouble for Debs, and final equation: La Follette + Bryan + Roosevelt = "Chaos" for the Democratic and Republican parties.

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    Hilarious! And very very true. Goes to show that literally nothing ever changes in politics! 

    I'm interested in how teachers would work through the "inside baseball" references to make the past comparison work for students. Cartoons do great work in communicating visually without the lexical decoding required for written text, but rely on understanding the visual symbols and references. I bet   Peter Pappas  has developed something along the way for helping communicate meaning without bogging down in the details, maybe? (His past posts using cartoons and allegorical illustrations are what make me think that this could be something he has already worked out.)

    That's such a good point,   Alison Noyes . A cartoon without reference points is just another picture. Your comment makes me think that this particular cartoon would make sense in a government or civics class studying the period, but probably not as part of a random election-related discussion.  

    At times in my classroom I would put an 'upcaptioned' primary source on the board and give students a set amount of time to figure it out. They could use whatever resource at their disposal (today I would have limited their ability to do an image search). It is fascinating what they can come up with in a short amount of time... 

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    What a wonderful, serendipitous find  Mary Johnson! I got Roosevelt, Taft, and Bryan but not the others though Wilson seems obvious in hindsight. I wonder what students might come up with if they created a similar cartoon for 2024 presidential hopefuls?

    How timely, and a clever roadmap for the next incarnation of this cartoon.  I bet AI could generate a clever new cartoon with the current candidates.  I see the art of AI with great potential as I am one of those who adores art and who is artistically challenge.  AI to the rescue? Maybe. Any use of eyeglasses (don't recall seeing current candidates wearing them) could be addressed with the Warby Parker software that allows one to try on frames virtually before making choices.  This is a wonderful drawing that reminds of times filled with inflammatory rhetoric once you identify the players.  While I knew all the names, I confess I had trouble identifying all of them but the answer key put it all in place. Today we are so visually grounded that a new drawing could be great fun.  It would have to be in color (yellow hair, no hair, and a long coiffure for current candidates).   What a find!

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