Obama As The Watermelon Man: Survey Firm Is Less Than Tasteful

COLUMBUS (TDB) -- What were those geeks thinking? RelevantView, which calls itself a "leading technology provider of info-based market research solutions," today published a report (pdf) that puts Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's smiling face on a watermelon.

Maybe the company should have done some research on topics like slurs before publishing Shopping Online for a President. The poll measures and rates the effectiveness of various presidential campaign websites. Obama's picture as a watermelon appears on the report cover. He's in a shopping cart filled with watermelons along with the other four candidates. They, too, are portrayed as melon heads.