Well lets just pick apart the practicalities of the situation shall we?
He is currently in hiding in a foregin embassy in the UK. If he leaves said hiding place he will have his collar felt and sent on a little trip to Sweeden to answer those pesky rape allegations that he refused to answer. (Except out of the window of said hiding place - his excuse? That other nasty country who have made no formal requests to the UK or Sweden to extradite will extradite him to the US) He is not in Australia, and as popular as his twitter or facebook or whatever else may be that cannot be taken to directly correlate to popular support - neither can the 77% who said they would vote for him. I have no idea of the political affiliation of the paper so don't speak from a position of knowledge, but a poll on the Guardian webiste in the UK for example. is hardly representative of the population as a whole. Even if he DOES manage to somehow manage to fight a succesful campaign, he is still hiding in an Embassy in the UK - so couldnt DO anything about anything anyway.
What else can this be OTHER than a publicity stunt?
I would have hoped most of the above was too obvious to warrnat discussion but clearly not.