What I'm Watching: Presidential Candidate Edition

• Nov 29, 2007 07:02 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Apparently our presidential candidates have enough free time to be watching TV!? In any case, here's a list of our candidates' favorite shows.

1) Hillary Clinton
Favorite TV shows: HGTV makeover shows, Grey's Anatomy, Antiques Roadshow, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars
Favorite TV show of all time: The Ed Sullivan Show

2) John Edwards
Favorite TV shows: Boston Legal, SportsCenter
Guilty pleasure: "Fred Thompson on Law & Order"
Favorite TV show of all time: Perry Mason
Favorite TV character of all time: Sam Malone from Cheers
Where do you watch TV when you're on the campaign trail? "I mostly watch football and basketball games in hotel rooms in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Des Moines, Iowa."

3) Dennis Kucinich
Favorite TV shows: The Tonight Show, Late Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live. "When I get a chance to watch TV, it's usually late in the evening.... Those shows have brilliant
writers. It's just great to watch them."
And you don't mind being the punch line of their jokes? "It's hilarious. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
Favorite TV show of all time: The Lone Ranger
Favorite TV characters of all time: "It'd be a three-way tie: the Lone Ranger, Lou Grant and Archie Bunker."

4) John McCain
Favorite TV shows: 24, Lost, Damages, The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, Late Show, The Sopranos - and Prison Break, "because as a fellow prisoner, I always dreamed and plotted how I would break out of the Hanoi Hilton."
Favorite TV show of all time: I, Claudius
Favorite TV character of all time: James Garner as Maverick

5) Barack Obama
Favorite TV show: Monday Night Football
Viewing guilty pleasure: "I watch a lot of SportsCenter - for better or worse."
Favorite TV shows of all time: " M*A*S*H and The Wire are my favorites."
Favorite TV character of all time: "SpongeBob SquarePants, because SpongeBob is the show I watch with my daughters."

6) Mitt Romney
Favorite TV shows: Lost, The Office, House, Grey's Anatomy and Boston Legal; "[ Lost has] a very captivating plot, and if you live a busy life, escape is always welcome."
Viewing guilty pleasure "From time to time, Saturday Night Live. I TiVo it so I can zip through and find the sketches I think are funny."
Favorite TV character of all time: "Going back to my boyhood: Davy Crockett."

7) Fred Thompson
Favorite TV show: SportsCenter. "I always need to stay up on my Titans, Vols, Vanderbilt and, of course, my Memphis Tigers."
Favorite TV character of all time: "My favorite 'character' is Chris Berman, a longtime ESPN broadcaster."
Where do you watch TV when you're on the campaign trail? "Like Johnny Cash says, 'I've been everywhere, man.' But when we're traveling, we're always moving, so I don't get to watch too much TV."

List compiled by Danny Spiegel