Politicians on Segways

Apart from the occasional story about hacking Diebold's touchscreen voting machines, we've been feeling a little left out of this whole Election 2004 thing here at Engadget (which is fine, since we're not Instapundit or Talking Points Memo or anything), but fortunately a little something something fell in our laps courtesy of this story over at CNN about Segway-riding politicians. Apparently there's a small trend of candidates using Segways when they go canvassing door-to-door for votes in suburban areas rather than, um, their own two feet. We're pretty sure Segway owners aren't a significant voter bloc (yet), but State Rep. John Heard, who is running for re-election in Georgia,
says that crusing around subdivisions in his Segway keeps him from getting all sweaty, something we've heard voters don't much care for in their elected officials. We'll have to remember to follow-up next week and see if he won or not.