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16 GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads -- rank: 812

GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads By LAURA MECKLER Associated Press Writer 10/27 ... pre-election twist, Republicans are buying TV ads featuring Ralph Nader in states where votes for the Green Party candidate might ... outcome to George W. Bush. The ads use clips of Nader attacking Democrat Al Gore, although he was equally critical of ... help Bush by persuading would-be Gore voters to back Nader instead. Democrats suggested that the ads, produced by the Republican ... GOP ads could reinforce the argument that a vote for Nader amounts to a vote for Bush. Polls show Nader, a longtime consumer activist who concedes he can't ...

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Author:	LeoCasey at aol.com
Date:	Sat Oct 28 11:31:18 PDT 2000

17 Nader: Fast in the Stretch -- rank: 805

Published on Friday, November 3, 2000 in The Nation Nader: Fast in the Stretch by John Nichols Ralph really ran ... from dismissing him to clumsily attacking the Green monster, Ralph Nader mounted a presidential campaign that in the closing days of ... political players began counting down the hours to voting day, Nader was thrust into the national spotlight by media that had ... as the "wrecking-ball" of the postdebate campaign. There was Nader, just days before an election to which he was suppos

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Fri Nov 3 05:37:16 PST 2000

18 Nader's Worst Postion -- rank: 805

... Raimondo Antiwar.com October 30, 2000 THE SMEARING OF RALPH NADER It had to happen– and, now, it has. In spite of Ralph Nader's strenuous effort to not discuss foreign policy except in ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri Nov 3 06:59:57 PST 2000

19 [lbo-talk]The War on Nader -- rank: 805

... Progressives as Pawns: Cannon Fodder for Kerry's War on Nader By Stephen Conn The progressives and peace activists who are helping to stop Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo don't realize it but they ... raising, research, and development of a detailed attack plan, anti-Nader Democrats hatched a much-publicized two-pronged attack on the Nader campaign in meetings with party leaders from Washington, New Mexico, and elsewhere during the Democratic Convention (David Postman, "Nader foes seek funding from Democratic donors," Seattle Times. July 28 ... nation-wide pre-emptive attack on voters who might choose Nader. The Democratic Party would field law firms to challenge ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Mon Oct 18 11:03:35 PDT 2004

20 progressives in the boondocks -- rank: 805

... the analysis below from Tim Wise takes apart the supposed "Nader effect" and pretty convincingly exposes much of it as hot ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Thu Nov 9 02:08:36 PST 2000

21 Shorrock on Ralph in Feed -- rank: 805

... master.html?alert> WAR OF INDEPENDENCE by Tim Shorrock RALPH NADER has convinced many leftists that he is a champion of ... same right-wing corporate cloth. As someone who worked for Nader on international corporate issues during the 1980s, I find these claims both laughable and hypocritical. In my experience, Nader was a union buster, a terrible employer, and, when it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 09:57:21 PST 2000

22 WSJ: Nader may defeat Gore -- rank: 801

... almost think it was inspired by the Gore campaign. If Nader is Gore's margin of defeat, good, he deserves to lose.] Wall Street Journal - October 24, 2000 Nader Hopes Wounds to Gore Will Shift Democrats to the Left ... Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAN ANTONIO -- Ralph Nader isn't going to win this year's presidential race ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 24 09:33:54 PDT 2000

23 [lbo-talk] Greens: National vs. State? -- rank: 790

Agree that local/state races are more useful than presidential for 2004. Re your specific suggestions, I don't think IRV is a good option. It retains -- in fact institutionalizes -- the focus on individual candidates as opposed to parties characteristic of American politics. Helpful if you are working for a high ...

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Author:	JW Mason
Date:	Mon Nov 10 18:22:01 PST 2003

24 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 790

How can any progressive seriously support Nader, who advocates cracking down on immigrants entering the country and ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:09:34 PDT 2004

25 [lbo-talk] Greens: National vs. State? -- rank: 790

The Nation had an interesting article about debates w/in the Green Party on 2004 election strategy (see below). After reading it, I've got a question for Green / Third Party folks on the list. In an election like 2004, where if Bush wins we are seriously screwed and where there ...

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Author:	Anders Schneiderman
Date:	Mon Nov 10 15:06:49 PST 2003

26 [lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER -- rank: 790

... mhtml?i=20040308&s=chait030804 THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER Make You Ralph by Jonathan Chait As Ralph Nader prepares for another spoiler run at the presidency, liberals are ... own reputation as well. "The most regrettable thing about Mr. Nader's new candidacy is not how it is likely to affect the election, but how it will affect Mr. Nader's own legacy," editorialized The New York Times this week. "Ralph Nader has been one of the giants of the American reform movement. ... [I]t would be a tragedy if Mr. Nader allowed [his anger] to give the story of his ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Feb 26 21:59:06 PST 2004

27 Nader, conservative? -- rank: 790

... www.townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/printbb2000920.shtml> September 20, 2000 Nader -- a conservative? Bruce Bartlett The strongest evidence that Al Gore ... all it seems is the increasingly shrill attacks on Ralph Nader by Gore's allies in the national media. This suggests ... Gore campaign lets on publicly. On Sept. 18, for example, Nader received a one-two punch from Sebastian Mallaby of the ... and Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker. Mallaby argued that Nader has no real reason to run for president, because the ... force that his campaign is superfluous. He ridiculed him as "Nader of the Lost Bark." Hertzberg, a former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, went even further, accusing Nader of being a liar. What apparently galls him is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:03:04 PDT 2000

28 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 784

... Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:27 PM Subject: Re: Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! ----- Original Message ----- From: "R" <rhisiart at charter.net> \Explaining "Nader-Hating", as you call it, is pretty simple. He's ... know better than that. your party began its -passion of nader bashing in 2000 when it scapegoated him for its own ... irrational? what didn't you understand about the above paragraph? |Nader and the Greens were opposing Gore. Gore |supporters bashed Nader, just as they bashed Bush. If Nader, as Carroll | ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Tue Jun 22 17:49:27 PDT 2004

29 [lbo-talk] Nader <flush> -- rank: 784

Nader replied: "The only way they can provide cover for their ... attention." that's really a hoot. The people voting for Nader wouldn't vote for the Dems if their life depended ... a way that resonated with these folks, Kerry would lose! NAder = <flush> [FOAD to those of you who think I'm ... agnostic up until he uttered his racist slurs last month.] Nader foes seek funding from Democratic donors By David Postman Times ... and donors to launch a campaign against independent candidate Ralph Nader. Trying to learn from what they say were mistakes in running a low-budget, casual campaign against Nader four years ago, organizers are pitching Democratic donors, lobbying ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Tue Aug 3 22:30:04 PDT 2004

30 Bill Domhoff on Nader and the Greens -- rank: 779

... Egalitarian) Democrats? By G. William Domhoff A Commentary on the Nader 2000 Campaign. March 29, 2002 Ralph Nader’s decision to challenge Albert Gore Jr. in the Democratic ... electoral arena. Not that it was an easy decision for Nader; he needed a lot of convincing, and almost went along ... and timidity of present-day Democrats. In the end, however, Nader was persuaded by comparative political studies of many dozens of ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Wed Apr 10 14:21:29 PDT 2002