Apparently, people like Mike because he looks like your average medical supplies salesman from the midwest (I don’t know if there are a lot of Med Supplies salesmen there, it just seems like something they’d have in the midwest, doesn’t it?). He took the opportunity over the holiday weekend to go pheasant hunting. Apparently the group he was with bagged three birds and he even snagged one of the little buggers himself quipping:

“Don’t get in my way,” he said while pointing to the three dead birds.
“This is what happens…You vote for me, you live. You don’t…there you go.”

Got to love a guy with a sense of humor (of course, the shotgun he’s holding helps a little too). The media sees his rise in the polls as an effect of his likability. He’s the favorite uncle everyone has when they’re growing up, as opposed to the really old one who continually tells you how it was when he was younger.