The candidates sat down with political powerhouse Entertainment Weekly to answer a few important questions. This one stood out.

John McCain’s favorite TV president?

President David Palmer [Dennis Haysbert] on 24. He’s fabulous. He’s a guy who makes tough decisions, he takes charge, he’s ready to sacrifice his interest on behalf of the interest of the country. My least favorite is the one that got stabbed by his ex-wife but who, according to your magazine, may come back to life, along with Jack Bauer’s daughter, Kim…

Makes sense. Tough, knows the risks in the world. And Barack Obama’s?

For instance, who’s your favorite movie or TV president?
You know who was a great movie president? Jeff Bridges in The Contender. That was a great movie president. He was charming and essentially an honorable person, but there was a rogue about him. The way he would order sandwiches — he was good at that.
Is that one of the things you’re looking forward to? Confounding the White House kitchen staff with obscure sandwich requests?
Absolutely. I want to test them. I want to see if I can get any sandwich I want.

OK, then.

We also find out that John McCain is a fan of the Will.i.am video:

You seem to really know your cable TV. What about the Internet? Do you ever look at the campaign spoofs on YouTube? I’ve seen some of them. Some of them are too painful for me to watch. One of my favorites is ’’It’s Raining McCain.’’ But I also like that early one they did for Obama [in which celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson recite lines from a speech as if it were a song]. That was really excellent.

Careful, senator. Linking Senator Obama with white, female celebrities will get Bob Herbert’s phallus radar in full swing.