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2131 Naderites pull ad in Calif -- rank: 447

... Hmmm, maybe Workers Vanguard had a point when they described Nader as a "spare tire for the Democrats."] October 24, 2000 Nader Backers Pull Ads in Calif. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed ... Calif. (AP) -- With a tightened presidential race in California, Ralph Nader supporters pulled ads promoting him in California newspapers out of ... full-page advertisements to boost support for Green Party candidate Nader, decided Tuesday to pull those that were to run in ... largest newspapers this week. The ads said ``a vote for Nader is not a vote for Bush'' and were aimed at Nader backers worried they could tip the election to Republicans. MacArt

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:16:39 PDT 2000

2132 [lbo-talk] Dollars Per Vote: Green vs. Democratic -- rank: 447

... Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>(Cf. Norman Soloman reports that, in 1996, Nader "opted to cap his >>campaign expenditures at $5,000" ["News ... mean in a country of nearly 300 million? "As Ralph Nader campaigns for president across the country, he is telling audiences ... stood for election. In 2000, I'm running.' In 1996, Nader gave Greens permission to put his name on the ballot ... but did not campaign for the office. The Greens got Nader on the ballot in 22 states and he received nearly ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 18 08:13:44 PST 2004

2133 [Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Quote of the Day: Howie Hawkins] -- rank: 447

... guess is that Howie wouldn't be as critical of >> Nader's campaign this year. > >WRONG! > >Howie, who is one of ... the Reds in the Greens, is as critical >of the Nader candidacy today ON THIS ISSUE as he was then. >His ... corporate politics. While Howie >was much more enthusiastic about the Nader candidacy this >time around, and is a strong supporter, his ... I'm doing. I believe the main point of the Nader/Green campaign _should_ have been to de-legitimate the Democratic ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 10 13:16:43 PST 2000

2134 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 447

... no good and Gore is no good," and the occasional, "Nader is better" which is sometimes offset by "Nader is better, but don't vote for him." When a ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Jan 13 14:31:15 PST 2001

2135 (no subject) -- rank: 447

... or not, the constant whining about how poor, innocent > Ralph Nader is being smeared, coming as it does after > weeks of ... in a kindler and gentler language, ambivalent. Read context, Leo. Nader and a host of others have been heaping whatever on ... nothing new here except for 1) the media has paid Nader some attention, perhaps smelling a story of Gore's demise

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Author:	Dennis Breslin
Date:	Sat Nov 4 07:46:38 PST 2000

2136 [lbo-talk] cruise update: the Ralph angle -- rank: 447

... at mutualaid.org> wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > Man, is Ralph Nader odd up close. His funereal > demeanor almost never > > lifts except ...

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Sat Aug 4 18:35:50 PDT 2007

2137 [lbo-talk] Re: Corporate Porn to Kids -- rank: 447

... Party, I have had quite enough of the attacks against Nader's alleged failure to participate in the party since the ... claims to diagnose. John I did pull the lever for Nader in 2000, but as a parti

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Thu Mar 25 07:47:20 PST 2004

2138 [lbo-talk] Re: Corporate Porn to Kids -- rank: 447

... was going to vote for him > <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Nader.html>. > I did pull the lever for Nader in 2000, but as a participant of the Nader-trader program. MD was a Gore-safe state, so I voted Nader in exchange for someone in WI (if memory serves) voting Gore. While I appreciate Nader's work as a consumer advocate I was less than ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Mar 25 07:00:33 PST 2004

2139 Gramsci says: vote for Gore! -- rank: 447

from fwd (Voting for president: beyond the lesser of two evils dilemma, JB Childs): ``On one side is the emphasis on maintaining the status quo by granting some concessions (compromises) to diverse groups in order to include them in society and blunt their opposition. The other side of the fault line ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Nov 7 10:38:19 PST 2000

2140 FW: Re: [ASDnet] Max Sawicky on the election -- rank: 447

I think the Nader "student" vote may have been more anecdotal than real. Here in Ohio Nader got about 3% of the vote in both urban and rural counties. I don't doubt that Nader's best demographic was 18 to 29 year olds. But ... of those under-$15,000 were students on a budget. Nader's > best demographic was 18-29-year-olds. > > Seth > > > ---------- > > From ... the election > > > > debsian at pacbell.net wrote: > > > > >Well, in the Nader vote there wasn't any working class. > > > > Eh? Nader got 4% of the under-$15,000 income, 3% ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Fri Nov 10 18:40:23 PST 2000

2141 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 447

... no good and Gore is no good," and the occasional, "Nader is better" which is sometimes offset by "Nader is better, but don't vote for him." When a ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Jan 13 14:31:15 PST 2001

2142 [lbo-talk] Booing Manning Marable -- rank: 447

> From: mitchelcohen at mindspring.com > > On Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer listserve, Art McGee wrote: > > >As for Mitchel Cohen and the Greens, it's obvious that they > >are as clueless as ever. They, like a lot of other idiots on > >the Left, don't understand two fundamental things about ...

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Author:	Art McGee
Date:	Tue Mar 16 16:26:42 PST 2004

2143 I warned you (Re: [lbo-talk] Vince Lombardi (Out of Iraq) -- rank: 447

----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com >I was wrong. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'm sorry I >have to. I don't think anyone, including you, really >expected W to be this bad. Did I expect 911 and the opportunity for Bush to ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Oct 5 15:19:55 PDT 2004

2144 Fw: [ASDnet] What Went Wrong for Ralph? -- rank: 447

... groups. It's amazing at the inability of those supporting Nader to engage in any analysis of that failure, feeling compelled to blame every other group for Nader's failures. All of this while denying that left Dems should in any way be able to blame Nader for his effect on Gore. i.e. Gore is responsible ... all his failures and Gore is responsible for all of Nader's failures.. And having run an incompetent campaign that failed ... support third party efforts or not, the objective failure of Nader's campaign on both points means that any future third ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Dec 30 11:41:03 PST 2000

2145 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 447

... issues are distractions from the "real" issues. Neither do I. >Nader, however, is a joyless character from whom whole registers of ... of the soul of progressive America, that someone like Ralph Nader is scorned in favor of people like Gore, Dean and Kerry who represent the interests that Nader has done battle with for decades - and the justification for scorning Nader is the miserable business of rationalizing continued support for the ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Thu Feb 5 19:21:31 PST 2004