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...could only go through the ducts and leap out onstage in a cape?that's my dream." RALPH NADER, U.S. third-party presidential candidate, on his absence from the presidential debates...
President Bush's lead in the polls may be shrinking, but another obstacle to John Kerry's chances of winning the White House is not: Ralph Nader. The erstwhile champion of consumer rights turned festering thorn in the Democrats' side has managed to get on the ballot as a third-party candidate in 37 states, including Florida, where he won more than 97,000 votes in 2000. Bitter Democrats complain that if the far-left Nader hadn't run that year, Al Gore, who lost by just 537 votes in Florida, would be President today...
Fearing another Nader nightmare in 2004, Democrats have mounted court challenges to his ballot petitions in states across the country. Nader angrily decries the tactic as anti-democratic and illegal, but in most cases it has failed. Which means that in key toss-up states like New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and, once again, Florida, Nader could siphon from Kerry enough liberal votes to deliver the election to Bush. In the latest TIME poll, Nader draws a surprisingly high 5% of the vote nationally. "Ralph Nader played a spoiler role in the 2000 election, and he could just as easily...
...like to vote for Nader, but I don’t really think he can win. So I’ll probably just vote for Bush...
...ratings for America's television networks. Picture the scene on election night: the early results have just started trickling in from the Republican stronghold of Saudi Arabia; hold on a second, though, Germany has started voting and it's looking good for Kerry; wait, Icelandic environmentalists are going with Nader. Sure, there's a chance the crucial European vote could swing the election, but at least the loser would have the satisfaction of blaming the French for real. Perhaps the best way to sell the plan to skeptical Americans is as a new weapon in the war on terror...