Word: naderism
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...Offner '01-- one of the campus organizers for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader--said she attended the protest to make a statement about democracy...
...cable and canned punch lines ("Wrong for the court. Wrong for our kids"). It wasn't always so. The 1964 Daisy ad was practically avant-garde. Today, while Madison Avenue produces some of the most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties (and corporations), but neither outdid your average sneaker-company...
...Nike won't go out of business if it can't sell its shoes to 50% plus 1 of the market. Nader is a niche product; he's like a UPN show trying to capture 5% of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward--and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...Nader liberals and Buchanan conservatives, Bush and Gore may be barely distinguishable: gush and bore, or Tweedledumb and Tweedledull. Their platforms agree on most important issues, ignore many others. But to the evangelical right - and regardless of religious affiliation, the radio reactionaries are evangelical in their fervor, their certainly, their tendency to demonize the opposition - Gore had to do as the new Clinton...
...polling locations at which members of the Harvard community were most likely to vote, the results closely followed those of the city as a whole, with Gore taking 74.88 percent, Nader 12.05 percent and Bush 11.99 percent...