Opinion: Stein’s campaign tanking faster than John McCain’s: Get in there and vote!

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After maintaining a comfortable lead throughout the morning, Joel Stein is hitting the skids in the Be Joel Stein reader poll. His 2006 anti-Elmo chestnut has now dropped to second place among the Stein-essay submissions, thanks to a surge by Suzanne Robertson’s ‘Toddler trauma.’ Robertson’s slender lead could change at any moment, but Stein has a shameful new item to brag about: Even in a ‘Be Joel Stein’ contest, he’s coming in second place.

Maybe you’re a Stein supporter watching the results with dismay. Maybe you’re one of those Stein haters and are gleeful over the columnist’s looming debacle. Either way, only a few dozen readers have actually bothered to vote. What are you waiting for? Get in there and put your thumb on the Carr-Benkler wager scale of justice! Vote for Stein, vote for Robertson, vote for third place contestant George Waters or for any of our other finalists. But get in there and vote.