Students of the Attention-Whore Index will be focusing not on the stampeding winner of last week’s poll (Donald “I Know What the Hell I’m Doing” Trump, with a well-earned 63.3 percent) but rather on the race’s place and show ponies. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, second, with 11.5 percent, is proof that you don’t need to be a household name to compete as long as you have other qualities, such as self-serving sycophancy and a compulsion to share your many, many opinions with a breathlessly waiting world. And third-place finisher Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (9.3 percent), the rubbery-looking, science-averse health czar, is showing signs of becoming an A.W.I. mainstay, this time charging right past the fading Elon Musk (fourth, with 5.3 percent).
And here we go again. But first:
