When Zombies Attack

Thank God that Jeffrey Goldberg asked the question that has been on all of our minds.

Which candidate, Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, would be better equipped to save civilization in the face of a global zombie uprising?

Relying on Dan Drezner's book, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Goldberg writes,

Romney, we already know, isn’t exactly enamored of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; we can assume he won’t be doubling the budgets of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health, the organizations that, with any luck, would find an antidote to zombification.

Obama, on the other hand, thinks the federal government should play a primary role in disaster management, and that government is generally a force for good. But there is a downside to overly generous federal spending: Drezner argues that the chance that a zombie pathogen could escape from a government laboratory grows as federal spending increases.