Japan ruling party scores hit with campaign cartoon

An animated cartoon from Japan's unpopular ruling party portraying its rival's leader as a smooth-talking suitor wooing a woman with fuzzy promises is proving a hit on the Internet before a national election. Over a candlelit dinner, a wavy-haired man resembling opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama offers the woman a life without worry about costs for child care, highway tolls and post-retirement nursing services.
"I'll sort out the details after we get married," he says, when the woman worries where he'll find the money. The opposition Democrats, which voter polls show could win the August 30 election, have promised to pay allowances to families with children, reform the pension system and scrap highway tolls.