[Noah Baron mulls a protest vote. See below for Xavier Sala-i-Martin's thoughts on the matter. -Ed.]
Over the past weeks/months I’ve been thinking a lot about Ralph Nader and his candidacy. The following is an essay I wrote when I was really pissed off at the Democratic Party, and had momentarily forgotten that the Republican Party exists and pisses me off even more. Basically, do not necessarily take the following post as an indication that I will actually be voting for Ralph Nader but rather as part of an inner dialogue and my personal decision-making process.
At the time of writing this preface, my actual vote is probably for Barack Obama, but I am not entirely sure quite yet. My vote will depend on the following factors: (1) how much I hate Sarah Palin/John McCain/The Republican Party on election day/whenever I send in my absentee ballot; (2) how frustrated I am feeling with the Democratic Party; (3) whether or not I actually get an absentee ballot/whether it gets here on time.
Fellow Columbians, I have something to confess: this November, I will probably not be voting for Barack Obama. I will, instead, be voting for Ralph Nader.
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Beijing in Paris
By: The Commentariat at 11:59 am
[Pro-Tibet protestors swarmed the Olympic torch in Paris this past week, not far from where Reid Hall correspondant Greg Keilin has been spending his semester. He makes sense of the recent fracas, which made headlines around the world].
I have to admit I barely even noticed when the Olympic Torch came to town this week. Apart from a few flashing, blaring squad cars that sped past me in the street, I never saw any sign of the commotion that filled the papers the next day.
Kate, on the other hand, was at home when the procession passed by Notre Dame, which we can see from our window. She never got a good look at the torch—it was obscured by the crowd of protestors and police—but she was an eyewitness to some heavy-handed law enforcement.
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