New Yorker Mitt Romney Cover: Magazine Shows Candidate Driving With Rick Santorum In A Doghouse (PHOTO)

The New Yorker's latest issue contains another buzzy cover about the 2012 presidential race.

Just over a month after portraying a smiling President Obama watching his Republican rivals fighting on a mock Super Bowl field, the magazine's new cover, which was released Monday, shows a slightly sinister-looking Mitt Romney driving a car with a slightly frightened-looking Rick Santorum sitting in a doghouse on top.

The cover is, of course, a play on the infamous dog-related incident from Romney's own life , when he strapped his dog Seamus to the top of his car in a kennel for a 12-hour drive. The episode has become a persistent and recurring issue for Romney, even sparking pro-dog protests against him.

See the cover below.