sailingaway
11-25-2012, 05:05 PM
From Jesus Christ to Ron Paul to Your Mom, thousands of not-on-the-ballot candidates received votes in this year's election. Some of the most creative entries came from Georgia's 10th Congressional District, where evolution-denying doctor Paul Broun faced no Democratic opponent but had to fend-off a write-in challenge from the ghost Charles Darwin.
But with other write-in candidates appearing in districts across the country, the only way to determine the best vote is to pit them against each other in a single-elimination competition as seen above. ...
Let's cut to the chase. Based on a completely objective standard of their awesomeness, plus the approximate number of write-in votes they received Ron Paul, Leslie Knope, Charles Darwin and "Better Options, Please" emerged as the winners in their respective divisions of Politicians, Fiction and Religion, In the Name of Science, and Miscellaneous. Knope and Darwin easily trounce their respective opponents in the semifinal round.
But who is the ultimate winner? Democracy. Democracy wins.
chart to click and make big enough to read, at link: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/11/20/best-write-in-votes-of-2012-national-tournament
Ron won over Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George Bush on the GOP side and Hillary and Bill Clinton, Abe Lincoln (you never knew he was a Democrat, did you?) and Harry Truman on the other side, to make the final four. However, Indecision Central gave the win on that side to Leslie Knope from the Fiction and Religion group, who beat out Jesus Christ to challenge Ron for the Politics/Fiction and Religion category.
(Not my chart.)
But with other write-in candidates appearing in districts across the country, the only way to determine the best vote is to pit them against each other in a single-elimination competition as seen above. ...
Let's cut to the chase. Based on a completely objective standard of their awesomeness, plus the approximate number of write-in votes they received Ron Paul, Leslie Knope, Charles Darwin and "Better Options, Please" emerged as the winners in their respective divisions of Politicians, Fiction and Religion, In the Name of Science, and Miscellaneous. Knope and Darwin easily trounce their respective opponents in the semifinal round.
But who is the ultimate winner? Democracy. Democracy wins.
chart to click and make big enough to read, at link: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/11/20/best-write-in-votes-of-2012-national-tournament
Ron won over Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George Bush on the GOP side and Hillary and Bill Clinton, Abe Lincoln (you never knew he was a Democrat, did you?) and Harry Truman on the other side, to make the final four. However, Indecision Central gave the win on that side to Leslie Knope from the Fiction and Religion group, who beat out Jesus Christ to challenge Ron for the Politics/Fiction and Religion category.
(Not my chart.)