U.S. Sen.-elect Tim Kaine may have kept outgoing Sen. Jim Webbβs seat blue, but thousands of Virginia voters preferred a cat to either Kaine or his Republican challenger, George Allen.
According to Hank the Catβs campaign website, he tallied more than 6,000 votes as of Thursday morning. That may have been good for third place, as it accounts for more than a fifth of the write-in votes reported by the Virginia Board of Elections.
And thatβs despite a negative online campaign by the fake Super PAC Canines for a Feline-Free Tomorrow.
Hankβs campaign began last winter as a spoof of the election process.