The Star Wars craze has struck the 2016 presidential race.
Polling outfit Ipsos found that Obi-Wan Kenobi would beat every candidate in the race, prompting the firm to urge the Jedi knight to jump.
“Ipsos finds that the American public would prefer to elect the iconic Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi than any other challenger,” said the company.
“Whether it’s because of this week’s release of Episode 7, or general disdain among Americans with their political system, this data suggests that the Jedi Order is vastly more popular than either the Republican or Democratic Party,” said Chris Jackson, vice president at Ipsos Public Affairs. “As we have seen in much of the political data this year, our Republic is more fractured than in recent history. However, it seems that the force could ‘surround us and bind the universe together.'”
Other highlights from Ipsos:
— Among millennials, Darth Vader (27 percent) would beat Donald Trump (18 percent).
— In a head-to-head matchup among millennials: Yoda (50 percent) would beat Hillary Clinton, 26 percent.
— Clinton would beat Vader, 32 percent to 16 percent.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
