Most of Cobb County voters chose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump this election. Sure.
In fact, most chose Clinton, in spite of Trump winning Georgia and the race.
But there were thousands of other Cobb voters who had something else to say and chose to write in a candidate.
For more than 2,100 voters, that was Evan McMullin out of Utah or just over 1,000 for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Actually, some people wrote in the major-party candidates themselves, which isn't how voting works.
Others voted for entirely different things. Here's some of those:
- Alice Cooper (Rock and roll icon. Free campaign slogan idea: "No more Mr. Nice Guy in Washington")
- "ASDF"
- "Asata Shakur" (Assata Shakur was rapper Tupac Shakur's mother)
- "B. Nye" (Presumably short for Bill Nye, science educator and all around "Science Guy")
- Batman
- "Batman [Animated Series]" (Respect for the specificity)
- Ben Zobrist (Aka "Zorilla" who played second base for the World-Series-winning Chicago Cubs.)
- Bozo the Clown
- "Bruce Lee The Legend"
- Caesar (Hail!)
- Captain Beefheart (the late avante-garde rocker would surely would have been a change candidate)
- Captain America (Actually, in 1968's Captain America No. 250, Cap declines the presidency.)
- Charles Barkley (former professional basketball player and current analyst)
- Chipper Jones (safe to say, he'd have some support in Atlanta)
- Tyrone Biggums (A character from the Comedy Central hit "Chappelle's Show")
- "Clair Underwood" (Claire Underwood, a character from the Netflix show "House of Cards")
- Clayton Bigsby (A character from the Comedy Central hit "Chappelle's Show")
- Count Chocula
- "Daffy Ducck"
- "D. None of the above"
- "Deez Nuts"
- Donald Duck
- "Dwayne The Rock" (Maybe it has to do with this.)
- Dumbledore
- El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)
- Elon Musk (The aerospace magnate)
- Fred Flintstone (Free campaign slogan: Yabba-Dabba-Do-ing What's Right for America!)
- "Giant Meteor"
- "Give me better choices, damnit"
- God
- "Gucci 'Guwop' Mane" (An Atlanta rapper released from prison earlier this year.)
- Harambe
- Homer Simpson
- "Hugh Mungus" (Wordplay, classic.)
- "I will not vote for criminals"
- "I'm sad." :'(
- Jim Harbaugh (current University of Michigan coach)
- Jimmy Kimmel (You know, from "Jimmy Kimmel Live")
- Joe Maddon (coach who led the Chicago Cubs to its recent World Series win who might do well on the president's defense council.)
- Joel Osteen (a Texas televangelist)
- John Cena (There's little doubt what song he'd start rallies off with.)
- "John Snow" (Either the father of modern epidemiology or a misspelled character from HBO's hit "Game of Thrones")
- "Judge Judy" (Judicial issues were widely discussed this election)
- Kanye West (The rapper has flirted with the idea of running in 2020.)
- Ken Bone (He wore a red sweater on television and everyone loved him for a bit.)
- "Kid President"
- "Lil B for Lil Boss aka The Basedgod" (A California rapper of many names)
- Love
- "Lucifer [Why choose the lesser evil]"
- "Lucy the goldendoodle" (D'awwww.)
- Macchiato (Only if it has a neat foam design)
- Me
- Megatron (The main villain in the "Transformers" franchise)
- Megyn Kelly (The Fox News commentator who got into a scrape with Donald Trump.)
- Mercutio (Considering he was neither a Montague nor a Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet," he would does have 1597 bi-partisan appeal.)
- Michelle Obama
- Mickey Mouse (More than two dozen votes.)
- "Mildred the pug/Captain Ron Miller Evans"
- Montgomery Brewster (The name of Richard Pryor's character in the comedy "Brewster's Millions")
- Morgan Freeman (Free campaign slogan idea: "Your best voice in Washington.")
- "Mulan the cat"
- "My cat Boots"
- "My wife" (Smart move.)
- "Nice try"
- Nick Saban (Head football coach at the University of Alabama)
- "No confidence in the U.S. Government"
- Noam Chomsky (American social critic)
- Obi Wan Kenobi ("That's a name I've not heard in a long time.")
- "Odin the Allfather" (Here's to hoping the Norse God wouldn't begin his Odinsleep while in office.)
- Oprah Winfrey
- Ozzy Osbourne (Free campaign slogan idea: "Come join the Crazy Train!")
- Pee-Wee Herman (Comedic character played by Paul Reubens)
- Peyton Manning (retired professional quarterback)
- "Pinksheep" (A YouTube character based in the fandom surrounding the game Minecraft)
- Pope Francis (He's busy.)
- "Protest Vote"
- "Puking dog" (Yuckers.)
- Queen Elizabeth II (She's also busy.)
- "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves"
- Ric Flair (Professional wrestler. Free campaign slogan idea: "Bringing stylin' and profilin' back to the White House.")
- Rice (Has the chance to cross over many demographics.)
- Snoopy (Cartoon character)
- Sojourner Truth (Famous abolitionist)
- Superman (He's been the president of the United States many times in the D.C. comic canon)
- "The Muffin Man"
- The RZA (a member of the Wu-Tang Clan rap group who could be in favor of fellow member Inspectah Deck taking a Office of Inspector General role.)
- Tom Brady (quarterback for the New England Patriots)
- Tony Dungy (retired football coach who'd have Florida and Indiana support, which wouldn't hurt.)
- Tony Romo (quarterback from the Dallas Cowboys)
- Travis Scott (a Texas rapper)
- "Ugh"
- "Web Da Boys" (Did you mean "W.E.B. Du Bois" the celebrated black author?)
- Willie Nelson (country star. Free campaign slogan idea: "Washington's Red Headed Stranger")
- Yogi Bear (cartoon character. Maybe his platform would be picnic basket reform)
- "Your mom" (Got 'em)
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