I think the cover only succeeds in focusing a lot more attention than the magazine deserves on the New Yorker itself.

Other than that I find the cover "offensive and tasteless" (just to be different). However, if the editors had run the same cover after Obama had been elected I would then find the cover "amusing and tasteless." The difference has something to do with the fact that we are now in full campaign mode, and at the very least the discussion generated by this cover will distract many voters, including ourselves, from gaining a better appreciation of the issues which divide the candidates.

Charley Noble