I'm wondering whether "Other" will raise his/her head in this election and have an effect. Folks who vote for Captain Kirk and Tammy Bakker probably don't have an effect since they're, one, not very many of them, and two, probably don't siphon more votes from Obama than McCain or vice-versa. I'm thinking more about the Perot/Nader factor, which can really swing an election. Perot is gone and Michael Bloomberg has decided not to run, but I understand Nader's going for it again. I wonder if he'll have the same election-tilting influence he had in 2000? Somehow I doubt it. I've talked to several Nader voters from 2000 and they all want to take their vote back and give it to Gore.

Well Tammy Faye Bakker is not alive any more, maybe all those dead voters can vote for her.

However, perpetual sourpuss Ralph Nader is very much alive, and he could play the usual diversion. He likes to impeach Dick and Bush. If all the folks that hate Bush would vote for him, he would win! He has some good ideas, but I don't think he has the whole picture.

I'm 75% certain that I will vote for Obama. I don't want someone who is 7 years older than I am to be President. He needs to be in a nursing home, not the white house. Even French President Charic was only 62 when he was first elected as president.

I think Nader's potential to be a spoiler has dwindled to insignificance this time around.

Where's Pat Paulsen when we need him?

Judging from your tag line:

I'm guessing you think we "need" him in the hope that he siphons off votes from the Religious Right so the Religious Right loses, not that we "need" him as president. You're a teacher, right?

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Misread your post. I thought you wrote "Pat Robertson". Guess there's a difference. However, it would be cool to have someone as president who can leg press 2,000 pounds.
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Huh?

A few years ago Pat Robertson was pushing some special Power Shake that supposedly helped him with his vitality. You too could buy it for however much money and with any luck, it would do for you what it did for him. Supposedly this shake gave a 73 year old man the strength to leg press 2000 pounds, which was about 600+ pounds over the previous world record. When some people grilled him on it, he kind of backed off of the claim a bit and said that his whole point was to encourage people his age that they too can get in shape, which is fine but I still thought he looked pretty dumb for saying it.

Aren't older people supposed to be wiser and all? I dont see how age is relevant. If things go the way they are in India, we might have a 81 year old Prime Minister next time.