Thanks to all of you for contributing such inventive clues, and welcome to skyewalker.
With all of a possible 13 votes cast, the tally is:
1 vote each for chrise @2 and ab @31
2 votes for paul @20
4 votes for BBM2 @30, who is beaten by a nose by
jws @11 with 5 votes, with his clever
Brainless but outstanding in his field?
Congratulations, jws, it made me laugh, too.
Your prize is a a snippet of Buster Keaton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9JWp3lLEkg
and apropos of the clue,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauLgZISozs
Voting day for us here in AU, they'll soon be setting up the sausage sizzles and the cake stalls at the polling booths.
Cheers