WCAX.com reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in Vermont this weekend, with stops in Waitsfield and at the University of Vermont.

In other Nader news, Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Mike Rotkin says the “essence of the Nader campaign for president, as is the case with any third party campaign in the U.S., is the assertion that although he has virtually no chance of being elected, there is no meaningful difference between the two major party candidates.” Rotkin calls voting for Nader an “absurdity.”