The UNR Students for Liberty are proud to present our Portable Library (of Liberty). It contains many books and essays that we believe will be of interest to our members for research and just plain old personal enjoyment.

The Nevada Sagebrush's most recent issue was a "let's talk about the student government" issue. Through their informative front page piece to their insightful human interest story to their spot on editorial, the Sagebrush has done a wonderful job in showing you our student government.

This is not the first time the Sagebrush has pointed to the ASUN Senate:

• The ASUN had a nearly $80,000 budget deficit.
• The student leaders showed little leadership.
  
• The election was a mess.
• The Senate was unprepared for their jobs.
• And there is that pesky $5 per credit ASUN fee [tax].

We have been hard at work in organizing and planning some incredible events for next semester. Through organization, we believe that we will be able to further broaden our presence and advance our goal of inspiring a student-driven force on campus dedicated to promoting and defending the principles of liberty. Although this is what is planned, as different situations arise within our nation, state, and school, we will have more events and may change this schedule due to an ever changing political climate. If you are not already on our mailing list (which sends an email about once a week in regards to what we have going on), we invite you to sign up. With this, we are proud to present our Spring Schedule of 2009!

The UNR Police Department apparently thought it would be a great idea to tape big white scary warning letters to the handlebars of each bike that was not chained up to the bike rack. Initially it seems like a good idea, but did they stop to think that the unchained bikes are no longer hidden within the obscurity of the masses? If I were in the business of stealing bikes, they essentially just opened up an unmonitored garage sale. (Not to mention allowing every person walking by the rack the privelage in examining each bike that isn't chained up.) Maybe next time they can step it up and put blinking neon signs on top of every car that is unlocked in the parking garage.

Easy pickins...

By the time I took this photo, over 3/4 of the papers were already removed.

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I thought I would do one of the owners a favor and steal one of the letters from his/her unlocked bike to show you all what it says. Enjoy:

I am all for capitalism, even radically so, but this is ridiculous. A man was trampled to death by consumers looking for deals. Every person who took a step closer to their purchase over his body is responsible and should be prosecuted for murder. So I may be a radical for capitalism, but I am a radical for justice first. The actions of crowds must not go unnoticed because they are complex. Individual responsibility came with every footfall that stomped a miniscule amount of life from that man.

Charles Mackay had it right all those years ago: "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!"

Government, by its nature, must seek to expand itself. A government must give reasons for its existence, it must point to problems that it wishes to solve. In so far as many problems now facing us have their origins with government intervention, we can see truly that this is a wonderful time to live in.

As much as I may point to the contrary (which I am prone to do) government is not inhabited by bad people. Sure, most are men of impotence, men of "the public good," men with little noble virtues and even less knowledge to act on them, but I truly believe that most men in government become involved because they feel a genuine desire to help their fellow man. I would be willing to say that all government officials do not start out their careers with the hopes of "seizing power" or of controlling others, rather they want to make the world a "better" place. Unfortunately for them, their plan must necessarily backfire because they are individuals who care above all else about themselves and those closest to them.

Let me first explain how I view the political situation of America as simply as I can. Certain men are elected by some sort of majority to have agreed upon powers over everybody. It is expected that these certain men will represent the will of this majority. The will of the majority is betterment for itself (or this is assumed because the will of the individuals who make up this majority is betterment for their individual selves). Thus the men elected will wish to make the individuals better by the means granted to him by the majority. And while this may sound all well and good, the tricky bit comes when means selected for the general "public" are applied to the specific.

Take for instance the past election and the selection of the president. It is hoped that what the president promises for the country will be enacted, at least in part. But the problem is, which parts? by whom? where? when? And the state level, how will these initiatives be enacted? In the county, what needs to be fixed? On the city level, what is there to do? Certainly there is plenty to do even at the localest of levels: my neighborhood street could use a new paving, my block could use some new paint, the city could use better trash removal, new streetlights, better sewer drainage, cheaper electricity, better education, better courts, less crime (generally meaning more police). The city government needs more funding for these things, but I as a citizen want to pay less taxes. I suppose I'm selfish, but who doesn't want more stuff, more benefits, at a lower cost? Quite a dilemma.

And this is just the city/county level, what happens when we start talking about the state level? Cheaper travel, better higher education, good insurance rates, low cost of living, all things we want the government to do simply because we want more stuff for less effort. There are few people who would rather work hard for a miserable life than work little for a great one. This is what the voting populace is assuming when it elects its representative: the government has the power and the will to accomplish what we want accomplished with the only effort coming from us being the minor nuisance of voting. But something from nothing is as valid here as anywhere and the lunch we thought was free will be paid for by us with a handsome tip to the waiter who spilled our drink and gave us the wrong food.

So we've got all these cities with all their own issues in states with all their own issues in a big country with all its own issues in a world that's got its own issues. Not just political or economic issues, but ethical, moral, religious, social, psychological, scientific, and environmental concerns are all relevant to a lot of somebodies somewhere. Who decides which concerns are more valid, relevant, solvable? The tentative answer generally ascribed to (at least in this country) is that a group of men concerned will vote and whatever the majority decides, such will be the case and this will be corrected by another group of men known as the government.

But just as most people do not have just a single concern, a government cannot be bogged down caring about a single enterprise. A government must attempt to solve issues of education, defense, justice, sanitation, infrastructure, and many more because these are the issues for which there exist enough people with enough influence to convince someone to get something done. Lobbyists, constituents, personal friends, ultimately it makes no difference who does the pulling of the strings: the more strings that keep the marionette dancing the harder it will be to control. Imagine it this way, everybody wants to play the puppet master, everybody has their own opinion on what is important about it: how it dances, how graceful it is, what the eyebrows do, how the hands moves, the color of its clothes, should their be facial hair, what play should it perform in, what kind of music, the instruments that music should be played on. How can such a small doll really show all the intricacy that everybody wants to show? Make a bigger puppet! With a bigger stage! Ridiculous? Well, kinda, but so is the government.

Sure, some of the lines might get crossed and maybe it won't all be as perfect as we'd like, but it still gets the job done and look at all the stuff we get! I mean, even the eyelash polisher's brush maker now has a job working for this puppet. The dirty little secret behind all of it is the cost. Where is the money for this monstrously extravagant doll coming from? Well in just world, the cost would be paid for voluntarily. However, in this world, the cost will be taken through a physical coercion taxation. Taxes are when the government takes money from you under the threat of harming you (imprisonment, etc) for the delusion of helping you (all these wonderful programs!). The things it gives you are things they assume would not be exchanged for voluntarily: if they could be, they would be without the government, if they couldn't be, then there is no reason for their existence. The price of the puppet will increase with the size of the puppet: labor and materials must be paid for with other labor and materials. You don't get something from nothing.

The price of an object is a general measure of the effort that went in to making it, thus the higher the price the more labor expended. If something can be made cheaper, that means in the end less money will give one more products. It's the "less effort-more stuff" mantra that we stated at the beginning. But the price of this puppet will be a little more coming from the government than it would be in a free market. The cost of being able to carry out the threats, the cost of "organizing" the labor, and the cost of inefficiency imposed by a forced monopoly (which includes sloppy labor and shoddy materials since the people involved have no incentive to do well: they will get payed the same for a "good" job as well as a bad. Remember "there are few people who would rather work hard for a miserable life than work little for a great one.") all factor in and show that people do not benefit from government. Rather it seems that unnecessary work comes from trying to sustain the leviathan that is the State.

All all this unnecessary work is hidden in taxes. People work and are payed for their work. The government says that because you live in "their" land that they are entitled to a piece of your labor. The taxes that pay the wages of the government are taken under their implicit threat of gun point. What distinction then is there between them and the basest of criminals? By taking away the fear the government has over its citizens it rids itself of the only sway it has. No one but the most naive still believes in the benevolent government. That's the nugget of truth: there must be fear of the government to sustain the government.

However, the government can't survive on fear alone or eventually the people would lash out: when you've got nothing to lose, you've got everything to gain. So what the government does is try to show that without it, people would be impossibly out of luck. Who would make the roads, who would provide the justice system, the military defense? Who would make affordable housing possible, eliminate discrimination, bolster the minimum wage? If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. In order to make these things issues, the government must step in and make the problem. Civil rights wouldn't have been an issue if the government hadn't instigated the problem. Pollution wouldn't be an issue if the government had upheld property rights. Education wouldn't be half the problem it is without the government mandated public education. Thus the government must show that there are problems that only it can solve, in order to stay relevant. But more and more problems are increasingly the result of government: the economy, the war, the roads. All the government.

And that's what I love about it. The problems that we experience in our country today are not of our own doing. It is not from our effort to hold down a job, pay a mortgage, or strive for an education that's shooting this country to hell. It is the growing, inefficient government. Spinning our wheels only makes sense, but with the weight of government, I am surprised we are able to make it anywhere at all.

So thank you government for taking my money without my consent, thank you for providing me with services that I don't want, thank you for providing legislation that bogs me down, thank you for not caring about me personally, thank you for giving your friends favors that they could not come to by legitimate means, thank you for your remarkable inefficiency in every avenue you wish to purse, thank you for being not only untrustworthy, but reliably so. Thank you most of all for every injustice you foist upon the public, for every bit of apathy we feel when you do something dumb, for every time you are indifferent to the direction you wish to steer this country as long as you are the one at the wheel. I am thankful because every time you show just how pointless you are, another person questions your legitimacy. Every bad decision you make, every increase to your girth, every thing you do is leading to your inevitable collapse. Through out time we have seen your cleverer and cleverer ways to show that we need you...but the truth has a way of interrupting that sad delusion: we don't need you. I am thankful because the more you show yourself, the more we get to see of you, the more we get to see how unnecessary you really are.

I pulled this from USA Today. Click to enlarge.

Ayn Rand was definitely spot on when it came to capitalism. This lengthy quote/article comes from Atlas Shrugged and extols the virtue of money. It's very powerfully said, very succinct, and very worth reading. Please do enjoy.

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

"When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears not all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor--your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money, Is this what you consider evil?

"Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions--and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

"But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made--before it can be looted or mooched--made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.'

"To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss--the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery--that you must offer them values, not wounds--that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade--with reason, not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability--and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?

"But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth--the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?

"Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?

"Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money--and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

"But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich--will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt--and of his life, as he deserves.

"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard--the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money--the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law--men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims--then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

"Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn.'

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world? You are.

"You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood--money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men's history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves--slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers--as industrialists.

"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money--and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being--the self-made man--the American industrialist.

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

"Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-- as, I think, he will.

"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other--and your time is running out."

With roughly 70-80 people in attendance in the JCSU theatre, students and citizens alike are now more capable and informed in how to properly and effectively flex their constitutional rights during a police encounter. We would like to give a special thanks again to Linda Nordvig, with her many years of experience in law, in greatly facilitating discussion and answering specific questions proceeding the film. With the overall success of this event, we plan to make this an annual occurrence, specifically targeted at incoming students and concerned citizens.

Was it the obvious liberally-biased journalism dean speaking of "media objectivity and fairness" and simultaneously expounding upon the fact that he adores CNN, personally distrusts McCain, and hates Fox news, or the fact that the people who were interviewing him swallowed every word of it as absolute truth and a sparkle of fascination?

More than likely, it was both, but undeniably, it turned out to be an total bust, something which I will never attend again.

"I have a solemn confession to make... I'm not a liberal."
"... Wha????"
"Just kidding."

Expounding upon monetary policy, central banking, and the macroeconomic conditions of the United States and other countries, Gerald O'Driscoll spoke to a group of over 40 students concerned about the upcoming economic woes. Thanks to the masterful camera work of Barry, we are happy to present to you the lecture.

There will be a forum on Politics, the media and ethics on Friday, November 7th. We should show up and add some strong libertarian voices to the mix!

Location: Knowledge Center, @One, Room 104
Date & Time: Friday, Nov. 7th, 10am-11am

As I was reading the Associated Press today, I noticed the front page article title and the first few sentences changed from one to another instantly! Notice the time stamp on the website. I'll let you be the judge! It's supposed to be the same article.

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"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Where are you headed tonight?"
"You don't mind if we take a look, right?"
"What are you doing?"
These are traps!

Do you know how to properly and effectively flex your Constitutional rights during a police encounter? Do you know what to do when a police officer asks you to do something that violates
your rights? More than likely, if you have ever been involved in an encounter with the law, you have unknowingly sacrificed your natural rights to the intimidation tactics police officers are trained to use. To balance this, the UNR Students for Liberty and Flipside Productions are proud to present "How to Survive a Police Encounter".

Become a more informed citizen! Just as regular physical exercise strengthens muscles atrophied from under use, innocent citizens must "flex" their constitutional rights in order to keep them strong and secure. Moreover, the simple and knowledgeable assertion of these rights is a citizen's first and best protection from the indignity and inconvenience of improper police searches and arrests. Don't get busted!

We will be watching a 45 minute film in the JCSU theatre that serves as a great practical guide on surviving police encounters, all with corny skits and excellent information. Afterward, we will be listening to an ex Deputy District Attorney who is now a Deputy Public Defender speak and answer any questions you may have. This could quite possibly be the most valuable and useful advice you have ever had. This is one event you cannot miss! Free pocket Constitutions will be distributed to all who come!

I almost forgot to mention it, but we (The UNR Students for Liberty) were in the Nevada Sagebrush last week. You probably won't be able to get yourself a hard copy unless you come to us (we cut out enough to keep all our mothers happy), but the story can be read online.

This reporter was a really cool guy and I really appreciate the time and effort he put into this article.

Unlike this asshat who couldn't be bothered to change his bland, preconceived, hackneyed, one-sided blogpost that didn't care to look into anything deeper than McCain v. Obama. There are more important things to do with our time than wax pointlessly on the already well-waxed.

So yea, check any of that out if you want. Or not that's cool too.

With less than 48 hours until the general election, the dorm room windows have spoken. All precincts are reporting in at record numbers, and it seems as though the results have changed since our straw poll earlier this year. The votes have been painstakingly tallied and recorded, and the next president of the United States has been chosen. So, without further adieu, let's begin!

Note: Some windows attempted to vote for the same candidate multiple times. The vote will be maxed out based upon how many residents live in the particular room. For example, if there are 2 people living in one room, and there are 4 Obama signs, only 2 will be counted.

Legend:
Blue - Obama
Red - McCain
Green - Nader
Yellow - Nobody
Black - Write-In

Argenta Hall

Argenta Precinct Results:
Obama: 27
McCain: 3
Nader: 0
Nobody: 0
Write-In: 0

Nye

Nye Precinct Results:
Obama: 25
McCain: 5
Nader: 2
Nobody: 0
Write-In: Terrorist Obama, Borat, Allen #9, Bud Light

Sierra

Sierra Precinct Results:
Obama: 4
McCain: 2
Nader: 0
Nobody: 1
Write-In: Farmer-looking Family

Canada

Canada Precinct Results:
Obama: 18
McCain: 1
Nader: 0
Nobody: 1
Write-In: Kramer, Pokemon-looking thing, Pie Chart of Procrastination, Canada

White Pine

White Pine Precinct Results:
Obama: 6
McCain: 2
Nader: 0
Nobody: 1
Write-In: 0

Juniper/Manzinita

Juniper/Manzinita Precinct Results:
Obama: 2
McCain: 1
Nader: 1
Nobody: 0

Write-In: 0

Lincoln

Lincoln Precinct Results:
Obama: 2
McCain: 2
Nader: 0
Nobody: 0
Write-In: 0


Total Results:
Obama: 84
McCain: 16
Nader: 3
Nobody: 3
Write-In: 9

There we have it! This concludes the official Students for Liberty's election coverage of UNR, and effective immediately, Obama has become our predicted Presidential candidate of 2008 by a landslide. Also, one cannot disregard the alternative votes, especially how Nader and Nobody tied for 3rd. With this tie, does this make Nobody comparable to Nader? or is Nader... Nobody? (I suspect the latter).

See you at election night!