translation.en: And Joel was explaining to me that, because USA Today was one of America's four papers of record, it would be scanned by virtually everyone in attendance at the conference, which meant that, if he hit it out of the park with his cartoon on Monday, the opening day of the conference, it could get passed around at the highest level among actual decision-makers.
translation.zh: Joel跟我解释说 因为《今日美国》 是全美发行量最高的四份报纸之一 基本上大会的每一个参加者都会读到 这就意味着，如果他能画出轰动的作品 在周一，也就是大会的第一天出版 就可能让大会最高层人士 也就是真正的决策者看到