Shake n Stomp

My obsessive following of the American presidential race late at night has given me some brilliant insights and ideas into the future of politics.

We're seeing women breaking ground on both sides of the spectrum and the first African-American to become a presidential candidate (for a major party). Early in the election I had also thought that another brilliant first was to be broken, the first Zombie presidential nominee. British media gives very little coverage to McCain, and it was only natural from what had been said to assume he was infact a zombie. Closer investigation dissapointingly revealed that he was just very old.

But a zombie president isn't far off. And I say excellent! If it wasn't for the whole two term thing I'd be definately pushing to see a zombie Lincoln run for office in 2012. Already zombies are breaking ground in all areas of political life. A recent poll has shown that over 20% of Americans believe that a zombie would be at least as articulate as Bush, and in Pittsburg zombies have held the mayorship since 1968 - rust belt Pennsylvania strongly relates to the decaying zombie candidates. Zombie politicians may upset many pro-lifers, but the millions of zombie veterans hold a strong appeal to the conservatives in America.

For a long time zombies have been seen as a threat to America. A potentialially dangerous element that could rise up at any time and feed on our delicious brains. But is this sterotype really reflective of the modern zombie? True zombie uprisings have become almost unheard of, viral outbreaks have lead to many believing that they are still common, but the infected in modern "zombie" attacks are infact not undead at all, and it is quite ignorant of media to portray these incidents as having anything to do with zombies.

It's true that zombies canniballistically eat the brains of the living, but what most people don't realise is that a single human brain can sustain a family of zombies for several days. The idea of insatiable hunger that would devour us all is complete fiction. Criticisms have also been leveled at zombies for being out of touch with mainstream society, more concerned with the obituaries than the headlines. However, zombies are representing a growing demographic in America.

Attitudes that zombies should stick to their graves and stay out of public affairs are becoming ever more challenged. A zombie president is only years away.