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Cat Comes In 3rd Place In Virginia Senate Race
Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:16
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Official Hank the Cat campaign photo
The battle for the U.S. Senate between Tim Kaine and George Allen in Virginia may have been settled in the litter box instead of the ballot box if the tightly contested election had come down to about 6,000 votes given to a cat.
It’s entirely possible that third-place finisher in Virginia is Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon who ran on a pro-feline, job-creation platform.
Hank the Cat had been running for the U.S. Senate since last winter as a part of a spoof on the modern election process. He received extended coverage in The Washington Post in February.
Hank even wrote a campaign blog for The Huffington Post in October, praising another cat running for office in Canada, Tuxedo Stan. That was after Hank survived an attack ad launched by a faux pro-dog super PAC.
Read more here: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/11/cat-appears-to-come-in-third-in-virginia%E2%80%99s-u-s-senate-race/
