Here's a fun little fact according to facebook Stephen Colbert is the most popular candidate for the 2008 US presidential elections. It took merely a week for the Colbert support group to become the biggest face-book group by far and for face-book to take the group offline. Although many of the supporters are underaged the statistics bring up a good question.
Ok so maybe this entry is not a traditional election entry and serves a comical purpose but maybe it reveals something dire about our politics.
why is it that professionals who try so very hard to gain support who spend millions and millions of dollars trying to get support and enhancing their career have problems getting similar support to a celebrity who simply fake announced his candidaciship
this brings up a theme present in previous elections- there was a study done in the last election that Oprah would have had a serous chance of winning the presidency if she won.
why is it seems that people who the public wants to run for president do not run?
Is it a fault in our system? Is it that the best leaders are the ones who found themselves in a position of power not spent their entire lifetime getting to it?
It is like in any other job. the people who perform a job for the mere power of it are horrible at what they do. maybe the problem is that politicians run for power. but is that the way it has to be? are there alternatives? should candidates be given other incentives to run? or maybe we could vote for people without the campaigns. like on american idol- ya politics is confusing and without answers
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