Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?

Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.

Gordon Brown

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Pro: Led the worldwide charge to re-capitalize struggling banks, and Europe and the U.S., followed his blueprint. Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman said Brown "may have shown us the way through this crisis."

Con: Before the crisis, was viewed as a weak leader whose job was in peril; a group of senior MPs called on him to resign. Plus, the long-term effects of his recapitalization plan are still unknown.

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