At the Market, I spoke with manager Mike Carrigan. He said he's hoping Obama or Clinton, or both, will visit the Market while they're campaigning in Pennsylvania. He still remembers Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore's visit back in 1992, when Bill Clinton's campaign bus stopped in York on its way back from the Democratic National Convention in New York City.

Apparently, the place made an impression. When some local Democrats met Hillary before a rally in Harrisburg on March 11, she specifically mentioned the Central Market. She reportedly described it as "charming."

In the meantime, Carrigan had another celebrity visitor on Saturday -- the Easter Bunny! (See the photo for my previous entry.)

On my way back home, I passed the group of anti-war protesters again. It consisted of about five guys, all of whom looked to be in their late teens or early 20s.

They were dressed with the calculated scruffiness of modern-day hippies. A couple of them had spiky dreadlocks, and one wore a pendant shaped like a pot leaf. One of their signs -- I forget the exact phrasing -- said something like "No More Fascist USA," with a swastika in place of the "S."

Just out of curiosity, I asked them who they were backing in the primary. As soon as the question was out of my mouth, I realized that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would probably be too mainstream for this group. I figured they'd be backing Ralph Nader, or maybe one of the Green Party's presidential candidates.

It turns out I was right about the first assumption, but wrong about the second. One of them told me they were backing Ron Paul, and the others nodded in assent.

Ron Paul. As in the Texas Republican congressman and former Ronald Reagan crony.

I asked if it was because of Paul's opposition to the Iraq war. The protester to whom I was speaking said, "He's not anti-war, so much as pro-liberty."

And beneath my feet, I could feel the tectonic plates of American politics slowly shifting.