Pete Reynolds at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency takes a look at Republican exit polls, and the results are quite revealing. Excerpts follow. Prepare to be shocked, appalled, dazzled, and pwned:
Nearly 60% of those who have nicknamed a body part voted for Newt Gingrich.
Ron Paul was the choice of 72% of voters who have fired a crossbow at a ferret.
People who hired Peter Cetera to sing at their wedding overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul was backed by three-quarters of the voters who purchase their meat from the trunk of a car.
Romney won among people who blog about board games.
Gingrich won a majority of voters who regularly send back hash browns.
Ron Paul won 63% of voters who have accidentally baked their car keys into a pie.
Romney took 88% of the votes among people whose primary issue was yacht parking.
Of those who thought President Obama was not humanity’s largest threat, 96% were just passing by the polling place on their way to Whole Foods.
It is worth reading the whole piece. Unless you are someone who actually takes this field of Republican presidential contenders seriously as anything besides a threat to our nation’s reputation as a nation not full of idiots. If this is the case, please move along quietly, and try not to touch anything.