Your answer that you are looking for is genes so its a genes
1. float, boat
2. fall, ball
3. well, shell
Pandora is a goddess (if we're talking about the same Pandora) and she's the goddess of misfortune. I would assume that the political cartoon would be showing that whomever was "running" for whatever position was a mistake.
The correct answer should be an Atlas.
Atlases are huge books filled with maps, most commonly political and geopolitical maps.