His presidential campaign may be shakier than a ride on Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, but Ron DeSantis triumphed last week as the overwhelming victor in our Attention-Whore Index. With 64 percent of the vote, Railroad Ron trumped all-comers with his glitch-filled Twitter announcement that he would (static) run (awkward pause) for (“Is this thing on?”) president. Every unsuccessful presidential candidate needs a defining moment of failure—think Bob Dole falling off a stage, or Michael Dukakis driving a tank. Now DeSantis has his. We can all breathe a sigh of relief.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
