His official campaign bio describes Percy as a compassionate conservative who takes a hard-line with social parasites, particularly fleas and worms. His past is free of sex scandals, due to “timely neutering.”
Via CamWorld [1], Dog Runs for Office in Florida [2]
In Cerebus [3], creator Dave Sim had Cerebus [4] run as Prime Minister against a goat. [5]
It was a very close race.
Now in real life, we have someone running against a dog.
Life is stranger than fiction. Heck, life is getting stranger than satire and that's saying something.
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Dog-Candidate.html
[4] http://www.cerebus.org/content-major.html