If you want to understand American elections, read a comic book.

Now, you won't learn much about how politics happens. Politics doesn't have clear villains or decisive, powerful action. Politics muddles along on a heavily adulterated biofuel composed of interpersonal favor-trading, compromised ideology, soul-sucking proceduralism, and ponderous interest-group mobilization. 

But elections — that's where your back issues of Action Comics will come in handy. They tell you a lot about what voters think.

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