Word: naderism
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Small in number but strong in resolve, several of “Nader’s Raiders” organized a Harvard Hall teach-in last night to kick off the Nader campaign at Harvard...
...Nader is also miserably behind in fundraising. At last count, his campaign had $175,000, a far shot from the $8.5 million he spent in 2000, and his failure to win at least 5 percent of the vote in the last election prevents him from supplementing donations with federal election money...
...biggest problem for Nader’s campaign is not its tiny war chest. Over the last three and a half years, Nader dug his own grave by saying little as the Bush administration pursued a far-right agenda. Once an outspoken advocate of reform and a significant public figure in the world of American politics, Nader has all but disappeared in the years since the 2000 election. The last four years have seen monumental changes in foreign and domestic policy, but through it all, the man who claims his campaign is based on outrage at the direction the current...
...lump the election’s major issues, including health care and the war in Iraq, into what is practically an addendum to his platform from 2000. He insists on pitching the same policies he touted four years ago—but new questions require new answers, and Nader doesn’t have...
With no real plan and no real political or financial backing, Nader has set out on a hopeless personal crusade, an act that even Democratic candidate Al Sharpton, one of Nader’s strongest supporters in 2000, said portrays him an “egomaniac.” With the 2004 election looming, following him again—disorganized campaign, lagging funding, regurgitated platform and all—is a mistake only the most clueless or cynical voters could make...