Here’s my list of some genuine 2008 candidates with the best names. This was inspired by a post in another forum from a guy who was having issues with Barack “Hussein” Obama because of his name, despite overall liking the guy because he was cool and liked to play basketball with the troops. I guess he could have worse reasons, but (especially after the last two “Who would you rather have a beer with?” elections) it’s hard to argue that this whole thing isn’t just a High School popularity contest in the end.

Here’s the Best Names list:

Blake Ashby
Claire Cruise
David Masters
Charles T. Maxham
Kat Swift

Here are some candidates that have NO chance:

Quay Fortuna
Michael “Jingo” Jingozian
Steve Kissing
David Koch

(Those last two should run together “Kissing/Koch 2008″)

Jeff “Petro” Petkevicius

(He apparently isn’t cool enough to have seen “Napoleon Dynamite” - no obvious “Vote for Petro” t-shirts on his site yet.)

“Average Joe” Schriner

(”Joe” also plays ball with urban youth, so he’s got that going for him.)

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