McCain beats Obama in race of hissing cockroaches

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McCain beats Obama in race of hissing cockroaches

The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 08/22/2008 06:41:20 AM MDT


Posted: 6:40 AM- NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - This presidential race was no contest: John McCain sped to the finish while Barack Obama was reluctant to leave the starting point.
 
But there's no guarantee giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches will predict the real result in November.

The roach race Thursday was part of the New Jersey Pest Management Association's annual clinic and trade show.

Organizers liken the race's prediction success to that of Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day.

Association Executive Director Leonard Douglen says the 2000 roach race came close. The Gore roach won by an antenna, hanging chads not included.

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There is a pictures of the contestants here -

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008133596_roachrace24.html

Another angle -

McCain insect wins cockroach race

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The 15th "Roach Derby" at Rutgers University in New Jersey has been won by a giant cockroach representing Republican candidate John McCain.

Thursday's running of the quadrennial race, first held in 1941 by the New Jersey Pest Management Association, pitted two giant Madagascar Hissing Roaches -- one representing McCain and the other Democrat Barack Obama -- against one another in a six-foot-long Plexiglas track.

The roach representing the Arizona senator broke from the gate first, covering the distance in less than five seconds, while the Obama insect dawdled.

"It was over so fast," Len Douglen, executive director of the pest group, said in a release.

The GOP roach also won the race for stand-ins for the as yet-unannounced vice presidential candidates.

Hissing cockroaches grow two to three times the size of American or German cockroaches.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/08/22/Watercooler_Stories/UPI-90381219401000/