Fun Election So Far For Odd Names

The story from Illinois of the Green Party candidate, Rich Whitney, being placed on the ballot as Rich Whitey, was precious.

I also like the fact that the Caucasian Wingnut is a real tree:

But some simple googling showed that if this is a put-on someone has spent a ton of time posting spoof pages on tons of arboreal and nursery websites around the world. More than 16,000 according to Google. So I'm going with the Caucasian Wingnut being the real thing.