The Best Campaign Rap Video You’ll See All Day, feat. Wyclef Jean

Mike Dunafon is running
for governor of Colorado as an independent candidate.
He’s the mayor of Glendale and married to the owner of a strip club
called Shotgun Willie’s.

He’s polling at less than 1 percent according to the
latest USA TODAY/Suffolk poll, but this video, featuring Wyclef
Jean, is pretty great, especially as campaign vids go.

“Hemp is just a plant” run the lyrics over a great groove.
“Individual rights is where it’s at/Collective thinking is a
cancer/And with liberty our guide/We can find the answer…” Sounds
better than it reads!. Dunafon’s main site is pretty
fun too.

The Colorado race is looking like a tight one, with
incumbent Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper neck and neck with
Republican challenger Bob Beauprez. In
the most recent poll listed at RealClearPolitics (over a
week old), Hickenlooper is at 43 percent and Beauprez at 40
percent, with Libertarian Matthew Hess and Green Party candidate
Harry Hempy each just under 2 percent and fully 10 percent
undecided.

This race is something of a bellwether, given Colorado’s
swing-state status and the match-up between Hickenlooper and
Beauprez, who are fairly archetypal representations of each major
party.

And, according to a poll not listed at RealClearPolitics, the
Libertarian Hess (issue page here) is on
track to
pull 5 percent of the vote. That survey, done by Gravis
Marketing, has Beauprez over Hickenlooper by 48 percent to 43
percent.