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It isn't worth it now, but back in the summer (if JBL hadn't had the belt), how perfect would it have been to do an angle with JBL running for the SmackDown! GM spot against someone like John Cena? The real election was going on, and was huge news, JBL is the perfect character for that type of thing, and did Teddy Long really need to be around?
They could have done debates and smear campaigns (a mock video about how John Cena isn't really a ghetto street thug, with interviews with Cena's middle class 'boyhood friends' would have been great) and had video packages every show about their campaigns in the city that each show is in - imagine JBL riding around the streets of Chicago in a van with a loud-speaker shouting out "Vote JBL!"
Also, if the fans had been the ones voting for it, it would have made them feel like they were in power, and their "SmackDown! Your Vote" thing would also have gotten more publicity. Of course, JBL would have ended up winning, so a controversial screw-job result reminiscent of Bush winning in 2000 would have been in order.
But they missed the boat on that one. There is no point doing it if there isn't a real election on, and they won't have the chance for another four years. They had the perfect superstar on the perfect year, but they ruined it.
That's why I should be on the creative team.
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