Singer, actor and one-time American Idol runner-up, Clay Aiken, is running for Congress as a Democrat in one of the districts near me. Yesterday, I noticed a bunch of his road signs had popped up on an intersection near my house. And right in the middle of them was this:

"republaiken" ?

I thought it might be a sign trying to fool people into thinking Aiken was a Republican. So I turned my car around and went back for a look. But no, it's a real Aiken sign. Same font, same colors, and the little star in the 'A' is shared on this and on the more traditional "Clay Aiken" signs - which I'm not going to show you because fuck you, get your own pictures! Looks like he wants to swing rural NC Republicans to voting for him. Best of luck!

I'd vote for him, if I lived five miles to the west.