Unity08’s plans are starting to materialize. Even if you don’t believe in voting for third parties, Unity’s idea to try and decrease polarized politics is an interesting one. Some say it is a noble one; others argue that given the choices and what’s at stake if one side or the other prevails there can’t be any ideological nuances or fudging, that people have to choose sides (which is why Joe Lieberman finds himself
busier than he expected in his re-election bid).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.