List of Fictional United States Presidential Candidates - B

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Bill the Cat

• Candidate in: Bloom County comic strip in the 1984 and 1988 elections
• Played by: Himself
• Running mate: Opus the Penguin
• Party: National Radical Meadow Party (third party)

Elaine Barrish

• Candidate in Political Animals (Miniseries)
• Party: Democrat
• Based on Hillary Clinton
• Former First Lady of the United States during the 1990s
• Governor of Illinois while campaigning for the democratic nomination during the primary season
• Conceded the nomination and demanded a divorce from her husband a former president in the same night
• Serves as the US Secretary of State in the administration of her primaries opponent
• Portrayed by Sigourney Weaver

Theodore Block

• Candidate in The People's Choice (novel)
• Party: Republican
• Elected by the electoral college, but resigns after feeling he did not win in the proper fashion

Chastity Bono

• Candidate in: The Simpsons, "Bart to the Future" episode
• Bono ran against Lisa Simpson; Lenny Leonard voted for her.

General Warren Boutwell

• Played by Billy Dee Williams in Undercover Brother
• An African-American Vietnam veteran whose candidacy causes "The Man" to begin brainwashing black cultural figures

Clark Braxton

• Candidate featured in Perfect Killer, a novel by Lewis Perdue

Don Butler

• Ran for the Republican Party nomination in the U.S. presidential election, 2006 on The West Wing.
• Lost to Arnold Vinick.
• Party: Republican
• Based on Pat Robertson.
• Was offered the Vice-Presidency under Vinick if he won the general election but declined because of their different stance on abortion (Vinick was pro-choice, whereas, Butler was pro-life)