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...somewhat of a surprise, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader also outpolled Bush, taking 13.67 percent of the city's 40,014 ballots...
...party had pulled down 3 percent (or 2.5 million) of the popular vote nationwide, while Gore and George W. Bush remained divided by a margin of less than 200,000 ballots. Across the country, disillusioned Democrats, liberals, environmentalists and trade union members stuck to their guns and voted for Nader, ignoring entreaties from former compatriots scared out of the Nader camp by the specter of a Bush presidency. Gloria Steinem and Melissa Etheridge, once Nader supporters, reversed course in the last weeks before the election, and campaigned mightily for Gore. And while their efforts, as well as those of splinter...
...Nader himself made it abundantly clear that he was not interested in backing down from Election Day - and that he saw no true difference between the two major party candidates. He scoffed at requests that he cast his support behind Gore, saying he was not out to help or hurt either the Democrats or Republicans. He was out to advance a cause - or, as his critics put it, to advance himself. And no matter what the eventual outcome of the presidential election may be, Nader has positioned himself as a key player in this historic showdown, and has firmly entrenched...
...process, he's also made himself a whole lot of enemies. Reform party candidate Pat Buchanan, who received less than 1 percent of the popular vote, had a few words of advice for Nader Wednesday morning: "I would currently advise Ralph, given the numbers that I've seen, that he may be interested in Secret Service protection... from some angry Democrats...
...Ralph Nader with a taxpayer-supported security detail? Now, that's a story...