Within the next 24 hours, we’ll probably know everything there is to know about Johnny Thumbsdown in the above image, so there’s a good chance that the myth will be ruined. He could have been drawing giant breasts on his vote sheet or removed his pants as soon as he stepped into his voting booth and began punching holes the old-fashioned way, but for the time being, this guy beat The Daily Show and Colbert Report to the punch on the day’s best election laugh.
This has nothing to do with Mitch McConnell and his politics – SPOILER ALERT: He won his reelection bid – because this dude could be giving the thumbs down to any politician in any voting booth across the United States, and I’d be reaching out for a symbolic high five. But I’m sure that people are going to take offense to it regardless, so here’s another angle for the hell of it.