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.

Robert Mugabe

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Pro: Stole an election, violently cracked down on the opposition, reneged on a power sharing agreement: perhaps no single dictator ruined a country like Mugabe and his minions did in Zimbabwe this year. So yes, he's influential.

Con: After months of turmoil, finally agreed to share power with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, so his dictatorial influence could soon fade.

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