"Finish Him"

The New Yorker magazine's Afternoon Cartoon, from yesterday, October 19, 2016, published just prior to the third and last presidential candidate's debate. Benjamin Schwartz shows Mortal Kombat video game character Scorpion instructing (presumably) Hillary Clinton, backstage at what appears to be a debate event, to "Finish him".

According to an article at Inverse by Gabe Bergado, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon sent this cartoon out to his almost quarter million followers on Twitter yesterday. How this will affect the eventual outcome of this year's election remains to be seen.

Immediately after the debate, a few comments on Reddit referenced this cartoon:

"And she did. Ate him alive in fact"
"FATALITY!"
"FLAWLESS VICTORY"
"BRUTALITY"
"She DESTROYED him"
"Hillary Kombat Clinton"

This morning, poll statistician Nate Silver posted an article at FiveThirtyEight entitled "Clinton Probably Finished Trump Last Night".

It's been the most interesting election in like, forever.

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Update, Friday, October 21: At last night's annual Al Smith fundraiser dinner for Catholic charities held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, Donald Trump seemed unaware that the well heeled attendees had donated multiple thousands of dollars apiece and expected to be entertained. Instead, he gave a variation of his usual campaign rally stump speech, for which he was repeatedly booed. One of the catcallers in the crowd yelled out to him, "Finish!"