Did you know that there is a third candidate running for president of the United States?

Of course you didn’t, because no one cares about a non-Republican, non-Democratic nominee.

Still, rest assured, there is one, and his name is Ralph Nader.

On Monday, Nader, who is running as an independent in his fourth consecutive presidential bid, held a campaign rally at Dartmouth, but he was peeved to find the student body grossly indifferent towards his presence.

The Dartmouth reports:

Nader noted that fewer than 10 of the approximately 40 audience members appeared to be Dartmouth students. He criticized the “sterile political debate at Dartmouth,” adding that the College is known as the most conservative school in the Ivy League.

[…] “The whole concept of a liberal arts education is to transform the mind to foresee and forestall bad things and to detect and build good things,” Nader said. “Campuses should come alive and spend as much time on this election as football and frats.”

Actually, Nader, students do care about this election – as long as the candidate speaking is named John McCain or Barack Obama.

In 2012, when Obama is up for re-election, please spare Dartmouth from your visit.

Thanks.