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...really care who knows it. But both of them want the Dems to do well in November - and Bradley's approval is critical to Gore, who's been hitting the left wing of the party hard this week (stopping in at the NAACP national convention, making overtures to Ralph Nader...
Most indicative of this is our depressingly dull presidential race. USA Today ran a fantastic graphic that showed a face split between that of Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The two halves were practically identical. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, a unique and interesting individual who has unfortunately been quarantined from the presidential debates, summed up the political predicament perfectly. In an interview last week, Nader was asked if it would bother him that his presence in the presidential race helped to elect George W. Bush. He responded, "Not at all. I mean...
This feeling of sobriety dominated the Green Party convention. The party was giving its presidential nomination, and in some sense itself, to Ralph Nader, who is nothing if not serious. It wasn't the first marriage. In 1996 Nader ran a somnolent campaign for the Greens--a national party that was inspired by Germany's Green Party, a pro-environment, antinuclear movement that flowered in the '80s. This time it's different. Nader's running hard; he has campaigned in all 50 states and polled 7% last week in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. He's drawing closer...
...Greens also find themselves closer to organized labor. Last week Nader had a warm meeting with Teamsters' leader James P. Hoffa, who saluted Nader and warned Gore that Hoffa's 1.5 million members shouldn't be taken for granted. In a behind-the-scenes meeting before their joint press conference, Nader wowed the Teamster leaders with his knowledge of the National Labor Relations Board policies governing union elections. "He knew everything," said a Teamster...
...countries. He cut his teeth protesting a commercial development in Santa Monica. "We're really maturing as a party," he says over a portobello-mushroom sandwich. "That means everything from getting bigger to knowing when to wear a suit." Indeed, the fringe party has abandoned its own fringe. Nader is running virtually unopposed. His Green opponents--Jello Biafra, formerly of the punk band Dead Kennedys, and Stephen Gaskin, a pro-marijuana activist--have minuscule support...