The Latvian media are telling us this morning that the real candidate hiding behind the ''shoe-in'' president is red head. Since our Wormelings had presumed that the "in" color was orange, one hastened to die her hair red.

From orange to red to ? what? What color wins only time will tell. But already one Wormeling / Vurmītis is thinking of coming out all green.

Here he is making a flash dash past our eyes.

The Wormelings surely agree that the real candidates are, so to speak, late bloomers. Right now, however, the Latvian Presidential campaign is getting more colorful by the minute.