Election Candidate Questionnaire: What's the Funniest Thing That's Happened While Campaigning?

Elections are supposed to be about politics and public policy and big issues. And this election has its share of all that, given the stakes.

But elections are also about people -- the kind of people who want to run for federal office. And we at AOL News wanted to get a better sense of just who these people are.

So rather than asking a bunch of boring policy questions, we invited candidates for the House and Senate to answer 10 mostly fun questions. We got a response rate of about 5 percent. And while the results aren't exactly scientifically valid, they are still pretty interesting. Here's one of them:

What's the funniest thing that's happened to you while campaigning?

A selection of the best answers:

Vernon Harrison, left, GOP House candidate for Massachusetts' 9th District, and actor Bruce Willis

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Look-alikes? Political candidate Vernon Harrison is at left; actor Bruce Willis is at right.

"At one event, someone asked me if I was Bruce Willis ... and I replied yes."
-- Vernon Harrison, Republican candidate for Massachusetts' 9th Congressional District

"I was in Duchesne, Utah, a few weeks ago and I was trying to convince this nice Republican lady to take one of my lawn signs. She wouldn't budge. Finally, I offered to arm-wrestle her for it -- if I won she'd take the sign and put it in her yard, if she won I'd let her remain sign-less. Well, we arm-wrestled and I won. She took the sign."
-- Sam Granato, Democratic Senate candidate from Utah

"Sometimes while campaigning, I fly myself around. One very late night, a staffer closed the door with his coattail caught outside the door. All through the flight I kept asking for him to look out the window, someone was knocking on the door. When we landed, he discovered his coat was shredded by the 200 mph flight. Mystery solved."
-- Steve Pearce, Republican candidate for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District

"Watching someone steal the trash at the end of my driveway. The funniest part was it belonged to my neighbors."
-- Clint Hylton, Democratic candidate for Missouri's 6th Congressional District

Isaac Hayes, left, the GOP House candidate in Illinois' 2nd District, and the late singer Isaac Hayes.

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But is he THE Isaac Hayes? Politician Isaac Hayes is at left; the late singer is at right.

"Someone thought I was Isaac Hayes, the musician."
-- Isaac Hayes, Republican candidate for Illinois' 2nd Congressional District

"During an interview on a foreign-language radio show, [a] caller demanded to know -- in a foreign language -- why I didn't support making English the only official language."
-- Jan Schakowsky, Democratic candidate for Illinois' 9th Congressional District

"That I've become an avid Facebook user. Trust me, my friends and family think it's a hoot!"
-- Jackie Miller, independent candidate for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District

Find other survey results here.