You can't touch this:  Trevor wins East View election and Sunday's Picks

MC Hammer might be long gone from American pop culture, but his most famous song was revived with the achievements of a talented 10-year-old from Chicago's suburbs.  No one could touch Trevor's popularity in his school's presidential election in Oswego, and no one could top him in the competitive Sunday Football Picks a few days later.  Really, you can't touch this.

In an exclusive phone interview Tuesday night, Trevor talked about how he became East View School's first Student Council president since the school's last election decades ago.  The fifth grader launched a thoughtful campaign with creatively designed posters that featured Trevor as Uncle Sam, declaring "I Want YOU to vote for ME!"

"There hasn't been a Student Council president since I've been at the school," said Trevor, who now speaks for every student from kindergarten through fifth grade.  "So I'm the first in a while."

On Illinois' election day Nov. 7, East View students filed into the cafetorium (the cafeteria that doubles as an auditorium) to hear speeches by presidential candidates Macee, Trevor, Lauren and Camila in that order.  Although given up to three minutes to talk, Trevor needed less than 60 seconds to make his points.

"It was short and sweet, so it didn't take long at all," he said.  "I knew I was going to get all the boys' votes and some of the girls' votes, too, so I was pretty confident."

In his remarks onstage, Trevor described himself as intelligent, crazy and freakishly tall.  Apparently that touched the hearts of voters.  He also listed his East View goals, which included toy, food and clothing drives throughout the year, an all-school paper collection for recycling, and encouraging positive school spirit.

The election results were announced after lunch.  Although vote totals were not publicly released, it likely was a landslide victory for Trevor.  But he remains modest despite being the most powerful elementary school student on his side of town.

"It's not like I go into school and boss people around," he said.  "My friends say things like, 'Hello Mr. President,' so I feel a little powerful, I guess."  Trevor said a girl walked up to him in school and exclaimed, "So you're the freakishly tall president!"

Trevor's performance in Week 10 of the Sunday Picks was a smaller success.  He led the pack with a 7-8 record matched by Mark, Nicole and QT.  Several weak teams somehow came to life for surprising victories that made it tough on everybody.

D.J.'s bigger feat for the week was driving her Saturn past the 200,000-mile mark on Saturday afternoon with the family along for the 2-mile horn-honking joy ride.  And what about Nicki's incredible Magic 8 Ball?  With the Bears trailing 13-3 Sunday night, it said they would come back to win "without a doubt," and the Bears roared back to thump the Giants 38-20.