I know safety comes first but I still feel sorry for the poor old guys who live in the middle of nowhere and whose only outlet is a few pints in the nearest pub at the weekends.
Can't agree with you there (welcome to the forums by the way). Can't even have one pint now maybe? It should be slightly higher in my opinion, maybe 100.
He'll get a good first preference vote alright but where he falls down is he is much less transfer friendly than the others. Unlike all other candidates he is actually hated by a large number of voters. For him to win he would have to be way ahead of the pack on first preferences.
RE: jUST A THEORETICAL QUESTION,
He sure would!