7 November 2000 - election day

Some of you people, through no fault of your own, are Americans of voting age. Try this thought experiment: A Rilkean angel with a heart of starfire and eternal hurricane wings bursts like an expanding universe in your living room. You’re about to perish from its stronger existence, when it thunders in a Mount Rushmore voice, “Vote for...!” Yes? Which candidate does the angel suggest, Ralph Nader or Dave Barry?