Looking at the archive, I'm surprised you made it this far. A cursory search reveals many "political" doodles.

http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-jfks-inaug...

http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-the-i-have...

http://www.google.com/doodles/south-african-freedom-day-2013

http://www.google.com/doodles/election-day-us

http://www.google.com/doodles/international-womens-day-2005

http://www.google.com/doodles/sopa-pipa

Anyway, I use DDG from time to time, I like it but the results aren't always the best in my experience. More power to you, I hope DDG works well for you, your comments in this thread just seem pretty disingenuous.

Google has always shown doodles for most of it's history, and it has often had a 1 or 2 line subtitle for certain special events, emergencies, or holidays. Egads man! It's taking up approximately the same physical space it always had, comparing this to Yahoo's portal is ridiculous.

Also, if you use the Omnibox or other search boxes in the browser, you don't even see it. You only see this if you visit www.google.com

Google has been doing doodles for 15 years, since at least burning man in 1998. I would have thought most people would be over it by now.