Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast I'm Chuck Todd, our guest today,

Maureen Dow, author of the new book The Year of Voting Dangerously.

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Joining me now in my office is Maureen Dow.

You said something in your book or one of the interviews that I've read as you've

been talking the book that you view your columns as a political cartoon, which I thought

was a brilliant way to describe it and now it does make sense how you get into caricatures.

That's interesting. You know, my brother does cartoon season artist and I was close to Pat

Olefant when I worked at the star who's a brilliant political cartoonist and he described

his cartoons as Storing Up the Beast and I've always remembered that and I was honored that the

you know political cartoonist see me as one of their own and they invite me to talk at their

events because I think that's a big compliment. I love that and also it works this year because

to me this race is like who killed Jessica Rabbit. So you've got Trump who's a tune running against

a human and that's why the press can't quite get hold of it. It's interesting that you went

ahead and described Hillary Clinton as human. I mean I say that only because the knock is she's not.

She's human. She's a robotic human but a human maybe a cyborg. I guess the reason I like

that it does make me think about your columns a little bit differently meaning you actually don't

want people to read everything literally. You are you're surfacing the caricature that negatively

defines all of them that bothers people. Is that a fair describe? Yeah you know as you know this

campaign has had a lot of talk about false equivalency and a lot of Democrats say they're

so terrified and you know that as Hillary put it in a fundraiser the other day that she's the

only thing standing between them and the abyss which is Donald Trump that we shouldn't say anything

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