A squeaker last week. Donald Trump’s various and sundry nominees and appointees, who have been our top Attention-Whore Index vote-getters for three weeks running, saw their streak ended by a pair of upstart offshoot challengers: appointee Kimberly Guilfoyle and potential appointee Lara Trump. When the dust settled, Guilfoyle and Trump were at 26.6 percent, and the (other) Trump Nominees were at 25.4 percent. Props also to the hastily relocated tyrant Bashar al-Assad (15.6 percent) and to A.W.I. mainstays the Sussexes (13.3 percent), riding the crest of their Polo documentary series into broadcasting history.

Our final A.W.I. poll of the year presently, but first: