1 Advisor: The polls are very tight, Mr President. I have a really bad feeling about this.
2 Advisor: Cthulhu has tapped into a well of public desire for gibbering uncertainty in an implacable and hostile universe.
3 Advisor: With the world possibly about to be destroyed by an asteroid, descent into writhing madness begins to have an appeal.
3 Allosaurus: RAAARRRHH!!
4 Advisor: Yes, but how do we communicate that to voters gripped by the whirling maelstrom of tenebrous and febrile insanity?

It's often said that you can't trust people to vote the right way. It does kind of depend on whose version of "right" you're considering.

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2020-08-09 Rerun commentary: That's... an interesting placement of the original copyright notice that I stuck on this comic.

I guess maybe it's part of the general weirdness happening across all of the themes at this point in the comic's history? Sometimes I think I should have written rerun annotations explaining all these little details back when the comics first ran! Then I wouldn't be sitting here wondering why I did half this stuff.