https://flic.kr/p/BczSr | Vintage Ad #173 - Vote for Winnie! | Hardly anyone remembers that Winnie the Pooh was almost the spoiler in the 1980 US presidential election, winning more of the write-in vote than the official third-place finisher, John Anderson. Alas, when Pooh's birthplace was discovered not to be in the US, the votes were discounted. Source: Ebony, August 1980