Dr. Dobb's Advice for Dems

Reading Dr. Dobb's Journal, one of the geekiest of the computer geek magazines, I stumbled across what might well be the best advice for Dems that I've heard yet. Michael Swaine writes this on the back page:

As I write this, a stunning 43 percent of the stockholders of The Walt Disney Company have withheld their support for the company's Chairman and CEO, Michael Eisner. In other words, running unopposed for reelection, Eisner came within seven percentage points of losing. He was immediately stripped of his chairmanship to be replaced by the only marginally more popular Disney board member and former Senator George Mitchell, whose last job was making peace in Northern Ireland, at which he succeeded just long enough to put it on his resume. This action by the stockholders--of voting in impressive numbers for nobody--suggests an alternative strategy for Democrats in the U.S. Presidential election--run Nobody against GWB. They'd sweep the Anybody But Bush, the None of the Above, and the Registered Anarchist demographics.

And you didn't think geeks had a sense of humor.

(No link--this was the dead tree edition.)

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