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Like leap years and the Summer Olympics, Ralph Nader’s presidential bids appear quadrennially with unfailing reliability. In every presidential election since 1992, Nader has thrown his hat into the ring, hoping his long-shot candidacy will reshape the American political landscape. Last Sunday, we found out that 2008 will be no exception, as that esteemed elder statesman of presidential politics (at 74 years of age he makes John McCain look youthful) announced that he would enter the fray once more...
Sticks and stones may break his bones but words will never hurt him. Ralph Nader has been called a lot of things, not the least of which is spoiler. If Al Gore had won even a few hundred of the 92,000 Florida votes Nader got as the Green Party candidate in 2000 Gore would be President today. This time around Nader is confident his candidacy won't harm the Democratic nominee's chances for success. And, even if he thought it would get in the Democrats' way, he'd still be running. The now-three-time candidate, who announced...
TIME: Why now? NADER:The signature-gathering season starts first, actually, in Texas in March 5th. In Texas they have a law that if you vote in a Texas primary you cannot sign anybody's petition to run for office. And then it's followed by Arizona, where you can't have anybody from any other state help you run for office because there's a requirement that you have to be a resident of Arizona to collect petitions to run for national office. There should be, by the way, one federal standard to petition to run for federal office...
...from free trade to “workfare” to the wars in Kosovo and Bosnia. Indeed, there was a significant element of the Left that was so fed up with the dishonesty and hypocrisy of the Clinton administration that it was willing to vote for Ralph Nader in 2000, knowing full well such the political implications of such...
...stranglehold on the media, and it is in their self-interest to advance the view that third parties are not worth a rational person’s time. Leading up to the 2000 election, Democrats chanted to would-be Green Party supporters the refrain that a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for Bush. Losing the White House ingrained a powerful message in the consciousness of a certain group of environmental-leaning liberals: Your party hurts America, so either conform, or get out of politics. This likely contributed to the Green Party’s decline in popularity since...