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Your Winners & Losers feature in the Notebook section called Nader a loser because he did not get 5% of the vote. But even though his Green Party did not get the 5% needed to receive federal funding, he still won because he had the intelligence and courage to tell the truth. Nader and the Greens have taken the crucial step that will eventually turn the tide and save the nation. JAMES M. JEFFREY Talent...
...Nader's ego trip will cost the environmental cause heavily. It will become very difficult to get a majority in Congress to support anything other than building oil pipelines. ED FRIEDLAND Wyckoff...
...uncompromising idealism of Nader is cause for admiration. Nader is exercising a right we have in this country to run for public office. Why the negativity? I think he offered a refreshing alternative to Al Gore and George W. Bush, and made the process more interesting. JEFF KLINE Fort Worth, Texas...
There is little to differentiate between today's Republican and Democratic parties. They have more things in common than not. Nader may not have achieved his goal of getting 5% of the vote, but it's nice to know that the seeds of change are sprouting underground, soon to be ready for their chance in the sun. CHRISTINE DESJARDINS Hokkaido, Japan...
...figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...