November 8th is Election Day. While 2011′s an “off-year”, next year will be the big one for the highly coveted position of “Leader of the Free World”. With campaigns kicking into high gear, we can expect a lot of fat, over-privileged white males to feed us the same tired line of crap they’ve been feeding us for years. Sorry folks, it’s not about freedom, liberty, or any of that other crap; elections in this country are about one thing. Find out why your vote doesn’t count, vote in our incredibly ironic poll, and check out 40 funny political cartoons after the jump.

The Pirate Party has won a huge victory in the Swedish elections and is marching on to Brussels. After months of campaigning against well established parties, the Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat in the European Parliament.

Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous, told us earlier this afternoon.
Though others were close in the running, the choice ultimately came down to the money&#… Click to read more

Sen. Barack Obama has secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for President, beating Sen. Hillary Clinton in the five-month-long race. Even if he loses today’s primaries, in South Dakota and Montana, he will still have enough committed delegates to declare himself the winning candidate, according to the Associated Press co… Click to read more

If you have been following American politics, and by the looks of current strawhat polls – if you are 18-24 years old – you are not, you would notice a wonderful new trend. The trend is not so much in the formation or operations of American public policy, but in the way our wonderful professional politicians name the laws and policies that they spen… Click to read more