Last week the beleaguered royals-beat journalist (or, depending on your point of view, disingenuous Sussex mouthpiece) Omid Scobie did his best to ride successive news cycles, and it got him a solid 23.9 percent of your vote. And simply by joining the Cameo celebrity-video service, former congressman George Santos polled 18.5 percent. But even those numbers were good enough only for second and third place. Donald Trump found a winning combination: addressing an issue none of the other G.O.P. candidates are willing to go anywhere near (how much water you’ll have in your dishwasher if Biden is re-elected), and bluntly acknowledging the eager dictator within. That put him on top again with 42.9 percent—not quite as big as the lead he has heading for the Iowa caucuses, but impressive nonetheless.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
