Overlapping fan bases
January 21, 2008 – 12:33 am by JohnWhen I was at the aforementioned midnight showing of Serenity, I couldn’t help but think, somewhat smugly but most likely correctly, that there has never been a political cause and a movie or TV show that had fan bases that overlapped as extensively as those of Ron Paul and Firefly. I bet you’d find a higher percentage of Ron Paul supporters amongst Firefly fans than amongst fans of any other popular-entertainment venture, and a higher percentage of Firefly fans amongst the Ron Paul supporters than amongst any other candidate’s support bases. Maybe even more so than fans of Ayn Rand’s fiction.