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136 [lbo-talk] Matt Gonzalez: Why Vote for Ralph Nader? -- rank: 684

Why Vote for Ralph Nader? By Matt Gonzalez These days it's popular, particularly in progressive circles, to attack presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate, Peter Camejo. Votes for Nader would likely otherwise go to Sen. John Kerry, and so ... strong feelings. But why is the right solution to attack Nader, who genuinely holds views different from those of Kerry and Bush? After all, Nader and Camejo are simply running for public office in a democracy. The problem isn't that Nader and Camejo represent a duplicative platform, or fail to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jul 15 22:12:38 PDT 2004

137 [lbo-talk] Ted Glick on Nader/Camejo -- rank: 684

Nader/Camejo By Ted Glick June 22, 2004 W hat an ... nomination contest has been! What a fascinating development, Independent Ralph Nader choosing Peter Camejo, the 2002-'03 Green Party California gubernatorial ... Party! It is clear to me that a primary reason Nader did so was because he realized that there is a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:26:16 PDT 2004

138 [lbo-talk] Why not Nader? -- rank: 684

The WEEK ending 3 October 2004 WHY NOT NADER? America's left is in a froth over the candidacy of Ralph Nader, the veteran anti-corporate activist, who threatens to cost Democrat John Kerry the election. The vitriol of the anti-Nader campaign is all the more curious since many of those ... down are his supporters from the 2000 elections. More strikingly, Nader is the only candidate who supports the left's goal ... to getting European support for the policing action in Iraq, Nader consistently opposed the war. The scorn Nader's candidacy is all about arithmetic and nothing to ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:55:46 PDT 2004

139 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader, 2001-2003 -- rank: 684

... that is the wrong question. Of course it is not Nader's fault if people do not read newspapers. But if ... September 19, 2004 4:19 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader, 2001-2003 > >2) Of course he's not going to ...

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Author:	Steven Gotzler
Date:	Sun Sep 19 13:44:43 PDT 2004

140 BW on Ralph -- rank: 684

... Business Week - November 20, 2000 Commentary: The Punishing Price of Nader's Passion By Paul Magnusson You have to hand this much to Ralph Nader: He can take the heat. Despite pleas and bluster from ... stayed his lonely course. Even as it became clear that Nader's Green Party candidacy could tip the election to George W. Bush, a politician he rates a ''D minus,'' Nader didn't shy from the role of principled spoiler. And when it appeared that Gore, whom Nader dismisses as just a ''D plus,'' might go down in defeat, Nader called him 'the least of the worst' and said ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 13 10:57:12 PST 2000

141 [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 684

Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! Great news! Ralph Nader did the right thing and chose Peter Miguel Camejo for his running mate: Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader selected Peter Camejo, a Green Party activist from California, as ... Milwaukee, where Camejo said he will make the case for Nader, the party's presidential nominee four years ago. Although not actively seeking the Green nomination, Nader said he would accept it and the access to 22 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jun 21 17:42:31 PDT 2004

142 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 684

... the reductio aburdem of third party advocacy: Says Carrol Cox >Nader-baiting is at least a first cousin of (or >temporary ... burrowed into other institutions in order to dominate them. Explaining "Nader-Hating", as you call it, is pretty simple. He's ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:57:38 PDT 2004

143 Nader cost himself federal funds (Re: election demographics -- rank: 684

... at lafn.org> > To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> > > >Nader would have gotten more votes if those intending to vote ... have been guilt > >tripping every Dem who wanted to vote Nader for weeks. For instance in CA > >Nader was up to 7-8 percent in the polls but ... a lot of folks, like myself, who would have voted Nader if the Nader > supporters were not attacking other progressives and if Nader had not > campaigned in the swing states the week ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:55:34 PST 2000

144 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali endorses Kerry, denounces Nader -- rank: 684

... Michael Dawson wrote: >No, sir. This is bad faith stuff. > >Nader doesn't rebel against "the corporate socialism of the Democratic ... by Raimondo is just a willful mis-hearing of what >Nader says. I don't get why this is a meaningful complaint. Nader rails against corporate socialism and he accuses the DP (and ... your houses" kinda guy, either, so he was obviously stressing Nader's critique of the DP in order to make an argument about how similar Nader's rhetoric is to that of midwest progressives. I was potentially considering voting Nader, even here in limpdick. But then, he called a ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Sat Oct 30 17:45:29 PDT 2004

145 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 684

... scorned on this list, and then object to me comparing Nader voters to Seattle window breakers, generally sympathetic characters on this ... list over the role of those window breakers and over Nader running, where many of the same people took comparable positions ... on the usefulness strategically of both the window breakers and Nader. >For God's sake, for >years the soc dems yelled ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Nov 9 19:42:04 PST 2000

146 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader -- rank: 684

... out >>of the White House. You're doing your man Nader and the cause of >>independent politics a real disservice if ... head >>around that. Agreed. >I don't think of Ralph Nader as my man -- he just happens to be the >most ... Democratic Party's response would be practically the same if >Nader's role were being occupied b

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Author:	dano
Date:	Tue Aug 24 21:37:46 PDT 2004

147 CP: forget Nader, vote Gore! -- rank: 684

... 43:15 -0400 From: John Bachtell <jbachtell at cpusa.org> Nader, Greens should join fight against the ultraright (Reprinted from the ... Weekly World By Rick Nagin The presidential campaign of Ralph Nader is a reflection of the growing anti-corporate sentiment in ... they see as parties controlled by the corporations. Many of Nader's supporters are involved in struggles to preserve the environment ... civil liberties, human rights and other important issues. They support Nader because of his anti-corporate stance. However, the great irony of Nader's campaign is that by taking votes and resources from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 13:50:12 PDT 2000

148 Nader cost himself federal funds (Re: election demographics -- rank: 684

... at lafn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Nader would have gotten more votes if those intending to vote ... have been guilt >tripping every Dem who wanted to vote Nader for weeks. For instance in CA >Nader was up to 7-8 percent in the polls but ... a lot of folks, like myself, who would have voted Nader if the Nader supporters were not attacking other progressives and if Nader had not campaigned in the swing states the week ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Nov 9 18:40:24 PST 2000

149 ... talk] Press Action ::: Ralph s Right Stuff: The Politics of Nader s Republican Support -- rank: 684

... full_article/bates09212004/ > > ...Ralph s Right Stuff: The Politics of Nader s Republican Support By Greg Bates Second in a series. What a zoo. Republicans who oppose Nader s principles and platform have sued to get Nader on the ballot in the key swing state of Michigan. And Nader s Republican support is a national phenomenon concentrated in swing ... swing the election to Bush. Meanwhile, progressives who agree with Nader s principles and platform, and who think he would make ... it s worth detailing that the support of Republicans for Nader s efforts extends well beyond gathering signatures on petitions. ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:57:50 PDT 2004

150 [lbo-talk] Irony of the Anybody But Nader Campaign -- rank: 684

>[lbo-talk] Nader on ballot if Florida >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com ... 2004 <snip> >joanna bujes wrote: > >Florida supreme court just put Nader on the ballot. 6/1 > >Why am I not surprised ... Cobb and the Democratic Party's legal offensives against Ralph Nader have had an effect of keeping Nader off the ballots in many one-party states while failing ... most battleground states: <blockquote>The [Democratic] party's limitation of Nader's ballot access has been most successful in non-battleground ... where either President Bush or Sen. Kerry will win easily. Nader then is free to concentrate on closely contested states ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Sep 17 22:27:29 PDT 2004