Brendan O’Neill has a good piece over on Spiked on how polar bears will figure into this presidential election. The money quote:

The intervention of the polar bear even into the American election is striking. That many Democrat supporters and radical activists are claiming to act on behalf of the polar bear – even dressing up as bears for anti-Palin protests – shows the extent to which environmentalism threatens to empty politics of its human, self-interested, democratic component. Some people are not representing themselves in the election, but are speaking for the cute (eh?), voiceless polar bear. ‘Polar Bears for Obama’ does not spring from the typically dumb Disneyfication of American politics but from the misanthropic, people-less politics of being green.

And here’s the T-shirt:

[Oh, right: Obama-Biden. There’s that other guy on the ticket.]

O’Neill’s article, titled “Who will win the polar bear vote?” is worth a read, even though he never really answers that question.

I can answer it: I bet if Obama puts ACORN in charge of his get-out-the-polar-bear-vote effort, he’d get every one. Heck, he might even make Alaska competitive: his old grassroots-organizer buddies could probably deliver 25,000 absentee ballots from the Canadian Arctic, grass or no grass.