Brendan Nyhan

DFA uses flag-draped coffin image for GOTV?

Howard Dean’s former organization, Democracy for America, is distributing get-out-the-vote sticky notes based on designs proposed by members. One of them appears to feature a graphic of flag-draped coffins of fallen soldiers above the slogan “Vote!” — at least, that’s what it looks like to me:

Honortiny

Am I wrong here? If not, is it really appropriate to use an image of soldiers’ coffins on a GOTV sticky note?