Hookhand Monster Leading In Polls

Steve Novick, brickbat's favorite gnome-with-one-hand candidate, holds a lead going into May 20th's Oregon Senatorial primary:

With just over six weeks to go until votes are counted in Oregon's May 20 primary, U.S. Senate Democratic hopeful Jeff Merkley appears to be trailing rival Steve Novick in the race to challenge Republican incumbent Gordon Smith next fall.

A poll conducted Monday exclusively for KATU by SurveyUSA gave Novick a double-digit lead over Merkley, with 23 percent of the 597 likely voters surveyed saying they planned to vote for him. Merkley came in third in the automated poll, with 11 percent of voters, a statistical tie with Eugene anti-war activist Candy Neville, who was supported by 12 percent of voters in the poll.

Forty percent of voters in the poll, which had a margin of error of 4.1 percent, said they were still undecided.



So take that, Mr. "I have both my hands and I don't go home on the Yellow Brick Road" Merkley. Word is, if you lose an election to a gnome, you become a gnome yourself.

via KATU