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Most Votes For A Chimp In A Political Campaign

Friday was another one of those weird days when Real Art gets an upsurge in hits from searches, and as usual, it was quite by accident. The search phrase that helped constitute Friday's 66 hit total, which is more than three times the daily average, was "chimp received over 400,000 mayoral election votes." Indeed, I've used the word "chimp" many times to refer to our simian President, and I'm sure I've used the words, "mayoral," "election," and "votes" a number of times as well, but I can't say when I've used the number "400,000."

Anyway, the people are apparently demanding to know about the chimp who ran for mayor, and Real Art always listens to the people. From the Guinness World Records site:

In the 1988 mayoral elections campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the anti-establishment "Brazilian Banana Party" presented a chimpanzee called Tião as their candidate. The name Tião means "Big Uncle" in Portuguese, and the moody monkey (well, ape, to be exact) had the campaign slogan "Vote monkey - get monkey".

Click here for the rest of the article as well as a picture of famed movie chimp and Ronald Reagan co-star, Bonzo, giving a political stump speech. Seriously, check it out. I'm not monkeying around here.

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