It’s been rumoured that Barack Obama would be making an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con in July.

Newsarama is reporting that it probably won’t happen, but that doesn’t mean it won’t.

Politically, this would be a great move for a number of reasons. For one, it’s obvious that Obama is courting the young vote and the majority of Comic-Con attendees are either young people or old people pretending to be young. Or, like me, they’re in that middle ground. But what better place to prove to the youth of America that he belongs in their camp then to make some type of major announcement at a comic book convention?

For two: Hall-H (which is undoubtedly where he’d have to appear) fits 6.500+ people. It’s a good size venue. But it would be filled with comic nerds from all over the country, all in one place. If Obama could secure endorsements from major comic book superstars like Frank Miller or Jhonen Vasquez or Kevin Smith or Jim Lee or something, you’d have 6,500+ people going back to their home states proselytizing to the rest of the nerd vote about how hip Obama is.

Thirdly, Obama is a stunning orator who can work a crowd this large. And if he can personalize a speech that announces his candidacy for president in the Marvel or DC Universe (Right now, Stephen Colbert is the front runner in the Marvel U, and the President in the DC Universe was Lex Luthors Vice President) and then could shade the speech with the kind of rhetoric that we can once again stand for Truth, Justice and the American way so that Superman and Captain America could once again be proud of their country…. It could be a watershed moment in politics and the nerd vote (the same countless millions who put movies like Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings in the top highest grossing films of all time category) would be officially courted in a meaningful way by a candidate that could genuinely earn street cred from the geeks.

It probably won’t happen, but it would be a great move. And it would make great TV. And it would make a lot of sense.

But, I’ll see you guys in San Diego in July and we’ll see if Obama makes it out there.

(This isn’t necessarily an endorsement of Obama, although I like him and I voted for him in the primary. This is just an interesting hypothesis. Big Shiny Robot is strictly non-partisan and non-politics.)