Any given week, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kanye West would be serious contenders in a competition celebrating compulsive, exhausting neediness. Throw in, respectively, embraces of Vladimir Putin and plans for a pornography studio—as they did last week—and the pair should be tough to beat. Yet both polled around 13 percent, no match for the ubiquitous Taylor Swift (31 percent) or the desperate, word-salad-spewing, orange juggernaut that is Donald Trump (32 percent).

The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …