Kasparov For President?

We all know that the United States Of America is having its elections in 2008, but another heavyweight, Russia, is also having its elections the same year. The surprise or the important news from there?- Former World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov has won a primary in Moscow to be the opposing party candidate. People may hate me for this but I don't consider chess to be a sport neither do I call the players athletes but yet chess forms a part of the sporting world. Now a former world champion running for the president of such a huge country has got to be some news. Good Luck to him but I always feel that sports and politics should always stay poles apart.