Somehow this escaped me. On May 8, Governor Walker will also face a recall primary. His opponent is an 23-year old activist and Occupy Madison protester named Arthur Kohl-Riggs, who has been known to dress up in Abraham Lincoln costumes. You can read more about him here.
Note that Walker refers to the Republican-supported candidates running in the Democratic primaries "placeholders." The Democrats use the term "fake."
They aren't fake candidates. Votes cast for them will be counted, and if they get a majority, they will win the seat. They are fake Democrats.
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Why not call them what they are? Zombie candidates. Not really dead, but not really alive either, they shuffle across the political landscape fated never to find a purpose that might sustain them.
I'm stymied by the best term -- both of these seem to be missing the point. Fake implies that the goal is to fool people into voting for them, and placeholders implies that there is a place that needs to be held. The whole goal of these candidates is to delay the recall for one month so they all fall out on the same day.
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