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...Bush wins, the margin of Bush's victory will have been provided by this year's version of Ross Perot: Ralph Nader, the third party spoiler. He proved the difference in New Hampshire and potentially Wisconsin, and may yet prove to be the difference in Florida...
This election will also gauge the support for Ralph Nader's Green Party, the haven of disgruntled die-hard liberals. Like Ross Perot in 1992, Nader has the potential to make a significant impact on the race. While he has his eye on the five-percent mark, others will be watching to see how much he detracts from Gore in key battleground states...
...clean up campaign funding has been blocked for more than two decades. Meanwhile, George W. Bush, Al Gore and their political parties have hauled in a record $800 million and counting. But this is flinty Maine, which enacted the nation's first drug-price-control law, and gave Ross Perot his best showings...
...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...
...When Perot won 19 percent of the vote in 1992, when Ventura won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998, how many of those voters were trying to elect the Reform party? In 2000, how many Naderites would miss a beat if he were running as the presidential candidate of, say, the Blue party...