Elon Musk has been a chronic also-ran for much of this competition. But an impressive chronic also-ran, displaying a wide range of stratagems seemingly designed to attract the spotlight—along with a gift for getting so much wrong, and so loudly. Yet he’s never won it all. Until now. This past week, you gave him 28.5 percent of your votes, solidly ahead of Dianne Feinstein (17.6 percent), despite her having drawn plenty of unwanted attention lately. Tied for third (13.2 percent) were 83-year-old expectant father Al Pacino and Texas politician Ken Paxton, who shrewdly played the impeachment card—his impeachment, that is. They were followed by Wagner Group headliner Yevgeny Prigozhin—Russia’s Elon Musk, in terms of A.W.I. persistence—re-elected Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, King Charles III, and Martin Scorsese.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
