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Varmus votes - how will you?
Posted by Alison McCook
[Entry posted at 4th February 2008 09:28 PM GMT]

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, so who are you going to vote for?

Yesterday, Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, told Wired that he plans to cast his ballot for Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 5. Obama represents "a new kind of leader, one without ties to a divisive past and one who portrays through his personal history a global perspective that is both crucial and unprecedented," Varmus said in a statement.

Publications and Web sites are scrambling to tell scientists how their candidates and representatives are weighing in on science; now we want to know what you think.

Who are you going to vote for, and why? Click here to tell us.

(An interesting aside: Varmus endorsed Obama even though he directed the NIH under Clinton's husband, and as a New York senator, she is his representative in Washington. He said he admires her "understanding of the relationship between science and the federal government," and would vote for her if she became the Democratic candidate.)




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