Every presidential election is a great event where everyone can participate and vote for the candidate who they believe will keep their promises and move the country forward. Campaigns from different candidates are presented to try to convince people to vote. In these campaigns, candidates will try to attract people with catchy slogans and then convince them with their public speaking skills; gain their trust and vote. Among the campaigns, there will be people who draw caricatures about the presidential elections supporting a certain candidate or mocking the candidates they are against. These caricatures show what people think of the candidates; whether or not they believe the candidates will keep their promises. The caricatures which were against a candidate, represent him in a mocking manner and show the worst qualities of this candidate; Yet when the candidate was favored, the caricatures showed their best qualities and stood out the most. A big election that caught my attention was the election of 1860. First of all, it caught my attention because among the candidates was Abraham Lincoln and we know that because of history he won; second since I don't know much about American history, he was the only one I knew among the others. Abraham Lincoln was elected as the Republican Party's candidate, while the Democrats had two candidates, Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge, and the Union Party had John Bell. At the time of these elections, the east coast was divided between the North and the South; where the North, predominantly Republican, was against slavery and wanted to abolish it. The South, in contrast, was governed by Democrats who supported slavery and wanted to keep it. From the middle of the paper, the images are more effective and clearer, it shows different candidates and you can differentiate who is laughing and who is praising. I think that campaign images should not be so difficult to understand, first of all because some people might not understand the meaning and just understand the external meaning. If you don't understand the metaphor or what the image represents, you will make incorrect assumptions that one candidate is better than another simply because of who the images are mocking. There were many people who were illiterate and could only vote based on the candidates' caricatures or speeches, they were easily influenced. Compared to today, where some people are still easily influenced, there are others who base their votes not only on the candidates' campaigns, but also on their backgrounds and achievements...