$200,000 and a pulpit

This summer, on Showtime , a twelve-week series will debut: American Candidate "with 12 contestants facing-off in a series of challenges to test their presidential mettle." If you've seen American Idol or Survivor, you know the drill: Each week a candidate is voted off (I think. The website doesn't explain exactly how, or exactly when). The final episode ... a showdown between the remaining two candidates. The winner is named the "American Candidate," and gets $200,000 and a chance to deliver an address to the nation.

The deadline to apply is April 9! At least two readers of this blog that I know of (a man and a woman) would be good candidates, and I hope someone from Carbondale gets on the show. (If I don't know you, you could still be a good candidate, so by all means apply. What have you got to lose? An election?