Word: nadering
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...Monday nights ago, Ralph Nader spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP). The environment was contentious. The audience was asking tough questions, Nader was issuing sharp responses, and interruptions back and forth were common...
...been on both sides of the debate. During the last election, I worked on the Nader campaign in New Jersey, planning strategy, organizing support and mobilizing voters. After eight years of Clinton and moderate Democratic policies, it really did seem like Al Gore and George W. Bush were similar, and that the two political parties were colliding together ideologically at an ever more rapid rate. The fact that there was a presidential candidate with views I shared, namely Ralph Nader, only made the deal sweeter...
...allows the use of different party electoral votes for the same candidate). As a whole, these structural inadequacies make any vote for a leftist third party candidate one that takes away from much-needed votes for the Democrats. This was a point underscored by Professor Sunshine Hillygus, who introduced Nader at the IOP, when she commented that her empirical research illustrated that most of the voters who voted for Nader would have otherwise voted for Gore...
...again. The Bush presidency has been terrible in every respect, from an unjustified preemptive invasion of Iraq that has alienated the world, to the erosion of our civil liberties under the Patriot Act, to a widening gap between rich and poor accelerated by tax cuts. As beneficial as Nader could be for this country, it’s not worth chancing another Bush win just to elect a third-party candidate...
Another factor that has kept Nader from remaining a viable candidate for me is the way he has failed to show loyalty to his own party, the Greens, who have nominated another candidate in this election. Nader is now running as both an independent and as a Reform Party member, a party that has nominated such notorious anti-government conservatives as Jessie Ventura and Ross Perot. Nader effectively abandoned his own party after...