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...bell, you're a few steps ahead of Al Gore, who seems to have forgotten the recent past and abandoned early attempts to "reach out" to young voters. And in doing so, he appears to have all but handed a potentially key element of his campaign over to Ralph Nader, who has stormed the scene and shaved off Gore votes in key states...
...disillusioned young people swung toward Nader, who didn't seem to need or be asking for money. Who never asked for anything but their vote. Who argued passionately against corporate welfare and for the "little people." Meanwhile, Gore and Bush plodded onward, bickering over whose Medicare plan would save grandmothers more money on prescription drugs...
...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...
...Which Al Gore were you going to vote for, the environmentalist or the populist? Which George W. Bush, the tax-cutter or the anti-abortionist? Which Ralph Nader, the government reformer or the economic isolationist? Harry Browne makes it easy. A Libertarian government would hardly seem like government...
...Nader, probably traveling by taxi, in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison...