Via Balls and Walnuts comes this mapping of Simpsons Characters to Presidential Candidates. I guess Cheney has the Burns character wrapped up, hence not on the list.

Speaking of the 2008 Election, here come the usual "candidate selectors": one at dehp.net (using data from 2decide) and one from Select Smart. Both give me different results: Dehp rates my top 5 as Kucinich, Gravel (who?), Obama, Edwards, Clinton, while Select Smart ranks them Kucinich, Obama, Biden, Edwards, Dodd. The dark horse Gravel is 2nd on the first list but 13th on the second. Full results after the jump, should you be interested.

My vote's for the "Bart" candidate, if you must know...

Results from 2decide / dehp.net:

Kucinich 21 Gravel 17
Obama 15
Edwards 13
Clinton 13
Richardson 12
Dodd 12
Biden 11
Paul -2
McCain -6
Giuliani -6
Cox -8
Thompson -9
Brownback -12
Huckabee -14
Tancredo -17
Romney -18
Hunter -20

Results from Select Smart:

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (93%)
3. Barack Obama (87%)
4. Joseph Biden (80%)
5. John Edwards (79%)
6. Christopher Dodd (78%)
7. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (76%)
8. Hillary Clinton (76%)
9. Wesley Clark (not announced) (76%)
10. Al Gore (not announced) (74%)
11. Michael Bloomberg (not announced) (69%)
12. Bill Richardson (67%)
13. Mike Gravel (65%)
14. Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (50%)
15. Ron Paul (46%)
16. Elaine Brown (44%)
17. Rudolph Giuliani (31%)
18. Mike Huckabee (28%)
19. John McCain (28%)
20. Mitt Romney (25%)
21. Tommy Thompson (22%)
22. Chuck Hagel (not announced) (15%)
23. Tom Tancredo (13%)
24. Sam Brownback (11%)
25. Fred Thompson (not announced) (8%)
26. Newt Gingrich (not announced) (7%)
27. Duncan Hunter (5%)
28. Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (3%)

M E-L posted this on August 08, 2007
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