In a campaign season swelling with populism, where candidates try to out-folk each other and prove their anti-elitist credentials, having a symbol of extreme wealth as potent as a 145-foot yacht is already a liability.

Primaries just happened! Former World Wrestling Entertainment Executive Linda McMahon won the Republican Senate nomination in Connecticut, performing [wrestling joke] on her opponents. In Colorado, Obama-backed incumbent Senator Michael Bennet beat challenger Andrew Romanoff for the Democratic Senate nomination.

Paul Kagame, the current President of Rwanda, appears headed for re-election in a landslide.

Levi Johnston, the ex-fiancé of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, will run for office in Wasilla, the town where Palin served as mayor. Which office? Um, he hasn't filed yet. And the deadline was July 30.

Dan Schruender is running for school board in the town of Rialto, California. Schruender is a proud member of the Aryan Nations. He might win, because no one's running against him. Don't let this happen!

There are numerous reasons why Wyclef Jean should not be the next president of Haiti. Writing for Fast Company, writer Jenara Nerenberg offers up a few reasons why he might be the ideal man for the job.

Tennessee candidate Basil Marceaux (Dot Com), who will "immune you from all state crimes for the rest of you life," has an official campain [sic] ad! "Put me in the capitol," says Basil, "so I can do my issues."

For the first time in electoral history, voting matters! Two candidates in Michigan's "fighting first" congressional district, Dan Benishek and Jason Allen, received 27,091 and 27,090 votes, respectively, in yesterday's Republican primary. Whom will Kevin Costner pick? [via]

This is a campaign video for New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis. Not the Sex and the City actress—the madam who provided former Governor Eliot Spitzer with call girls and was sent to Rikers for four months.

This Thursday, why not tune into CNN's Larry King Live on CNN? CNN reports that musician Wyclef Jean might announce his already-mostly-confirmed candidacy for president of Haiti—but you'll have to watch CNN to find out! [CNN]

Nondescript Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is pretty much 100% going to run for president in 2012. What's his strategy to make anyone care? Apparently it's to strut around his "red-hot smoking wife" before the salivating crowds.

Jeb Bush says he will not run for president in 2012, so that's that, okay?

Jan Schill, the daughter of a judicial candidate in Oklahoma, really doesn't want her father to be a judge. So much so that she took out a full-page ad telling people not to vote for him. And started a blog.

Who should be Tennessee's next governor? Why not this fellow? His name is Basil Marceax ("dot com") and if you vote for him he will "immune you from all state crimes for the rest of you life."

Russia just elected its first black official. Commenter Tristan13 points us to this story, saying: "With all the race baiting going on lately, I found this story quite amusing." Yeah, but you know Andrew Breitbart's getting his smears ready.

Here's incredible South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene's YouTube song, (allegedly) written, produced and edited by the candidate [Updated below]. It's got LeBron James highlights, lyrics about not showing porn to college girls, you name it. Just watch.

Not much is known about surprise Democratic South Carolina Senate nominee Alvin Greene, but military records obtained by the Associated Press provide some insight into Greene's honorable discharge from the Air Force in 2005.

Independent candidates for Wisconsin's state assembly are allotted five words on the ballot to explain themselves. Milwaukee's Ieshuh Griffin went with the classic, "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch.'" (They're so focus-grouped, these days.) Why would the state election board reject this?

Former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes has won the Democratic nomination for his old post, while Republican gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel and Nathan Deal are headed for a runoff election.

Rick Barber, the wannabe Republican candidate for Congress in Alabama, lost his runoff election, despite his informative and educational television ads, which featured him in conversation with various founding fathers, and Abraham Lincoln.