LARA CROFT LEADS
AT THE POLLS
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VNU dot net
[ May 21st 2001 ]
According
to a survey commissioned by leading UK electrical
retailer Dixons, Britains first-time voters know
more about computer and video games that the polital
heads they are tendering their vote for, VNUNET
News reports today:
The survey
asked a thousand young adults to list all the
computer-game characters, members of the cabinet
and members of the shadow cabinet they could think
of. While those questioned managed an average
of eight computer-game stars, they could typically
name only four members of the cabinet and only
two members of the shadow cabinet. Of the politicians,
only Tony Blair (100 per cent) and William Hague
(98 per cent) were listed by more of the respondents
than Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft (97 per cent).
Indeed, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Donkey
Kong, Pikachu and Crash Bandicoot all scored better
than the 44 per cent managed by the next most
recognised cabinet politician, Punchin' John Prescott,
the deputy prime minister. Chancellor Gordon Brown
(42 per cent) edged out Zelda (41 per cent) for
tenth place on the list.
But,
even despite this year's foot and mouth outbreak,
agriculture minister Nick Brown managed only 37
per cent, less than the 39 per cent score of Chun
Li, from the Street Fighter series of beat-'em-ups.
Conservative Ann Widdecombe (33 per cent) beat
Labour's Mo Mowlem (31 per cent) but trailed Duke
Nukem (36 per cent), while Michael Portillo (Conservative,
27 per cent), Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Robin
Cook and Chris Smith all trailed behind Tails
(29 per cent), Sonic the Hedgehog's sidekick.
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