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2236 [lbo-talk] The Only Clear Anti-War Campaign -- rank: 419

... HANANEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader raised about $600,000 in the two months since he ... campaign announced Wednesday. In papers filed with Federal Election Commission, Nader said roughly 60 percent of that amount had been donated ... 000 in 20 states in donations of $250 or less. Nader has collected more than $5,000 from 23 different states ... donations have been under $100. . . . Campaign spokesman Kevin Zeese said Nader was able to make the request for matching funds two ... when he announced his candidacy at about the same time. Nader had raised only $198,000 by this

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Apr 21 11:32:33 PDT 2004

2237 [lbo-talk] Green Leader Has Doubts about Kerry -- rank: 419

... most impartial observer. He still has great admiration for Ralph Nader, who was the Green Party candidate in 2000 and who ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Apr 9 13:23:28 PDT 2004

2238 [lbo-talk] Re: Why Liberals Lose Elections -- rank: 419

... have been reading the posts both pro and con Ralph Nader's candidacy and the Green Party and I think his ... today. I find it odd that for his broadest appeal Nader asserts individualism, but when it comes to issues of individuality ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:23:18 PST 2004

2239 [lbo-talk] "There are leftists, but there is no left" Salon interview with James Weinstein -- rank: 419

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/10/30/weinstein/index.html In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joan Walsh printe-mail Oct. 30, 2003 | Nobody would mistake left-wing ...

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Author:	John Adams
Date:	Thu Oct 30 21:24:08 PST 2003

2240 [lbo-talk] Ralph: Obama an Uncle Tom -- rank: 419

John Thornton asks: > You also avoided answering the question. Was Nader's question a > rhetorical device or legitimate inquiry on Nader's part? I did answer that, but I'll be ... think the question of whether Obama will do the things Nader asks is a legitimate question that will be answered in time. I also think that Nader suspects that the answer will be a resounding negative. How ... what Obama intends to do was in line with what Nader would do, he would not have run: he would have declared his support for him. FWIW, I agree with Nader and would love to be wrong. > When you ask ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Thu Nov 6 18:17:23 PST 2008

2241 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 419

... in Action' the better. I am still perplexed by anti-Nader antipathy among the 'Anyone but Bush' crowd. There are, at ... are some Greens who, if mobilized to the polls by Nader - or McKinney for that matter, will vote Green locally and ... Democrats inabilty to mobilize their own base. Thus, demouning a Nader/Green Presidential run, is really spiting oneslef politically because while a Nader run will not hurt the Democrats - it might actually help them. Underlying the Nader-bashing sent

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Tue Nov 11 14:19:00 PST 2003

2242 [lbo-talk] Ralph: Obama an Uncle Tom -- rank: 419

... Obama is the only one who can answer the question; Nader, as a lawyer, seems comfortable to use past evidence to ... quite plainly > in the rest of Naders diatribe? I think Nader made a lot of good points and threw down a ... it from Fox News, of course -- and so did Ralph Nader. I mean, what a setup: would you apologize to Fox ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Thu Nov 6 16:31:34 PST 2008

2243 [lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!! -- rank: 419

... are some very positive possibilities that could emerge from another Nader run? What if he runs, and Dean helps him get into the debates, and then both Dean and Nader double-team Bush? That would be a big structural breakthrough ... very hard-pressed to survive. I think if that happened, Nader would eventually drop out and endorse Dean. Even if he didn't, if Dean supported Nader and they double-teamed Bush, most Nader backers would vote Dean in order to can Bush. If ... who he semi-claims to be), I'd be inviting Nader into the race, and trying to forge a pact ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson -PSU
Date:	Mon Dec 8 11:14:38 PST 2003

2244 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 419

... post contains some kind of subliminal message > against voting for Nader, I'd like to highlight a point made by Dean ... a letter in this week's Nation. Dean reasons that Nader's chances of > hurting Gore in any serious way are slim. As I noted in my other post, Nader's vote totals

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Aug 15 12:15:54 PDT 2000

2245 [lbo-talk] 2004: An Epic Year of Betrayal -- rank: 386

If you're going to start a rebellion, you might first want to choose a coherent name for your group. "Fortune 500 Killers" sounds like a group that works for the Fortune 500. Ah, don't bother. Judging from the level of writing and thinking in your manifesto, I'm sure ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Sat Nov 27 08:22:36 PST 2004

2246 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly: "The Faster We Get Out of There, the Better" -- rank: 386

... s remarks demonstrate, leftists should turn up the heat on Nader as well, not just on Bush and Kerry, holding the ... telling me we need to be wasting our time pressuring Nader now?" Yoshie wrote: "Not at all, since you've never indicated the slightest interest in the Nader campaign or the Green Party or third-party organizing." Your post said "leftists" should pressure Nader, not "38% of LBO folks." As far as not indicating ... you're right, I'm not interested in that. Is Nader organizing a 3rd party? Doesn't look like it. B

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Author:	B.
Date:	Fri Jun 18 04:46:38 PDT 2004

2247 It's Heating Up -- rank: 386

... with the best. Who in their right mind > thinks that Nader is taking ANY votes from Bush, much less a union ... classic white, middle strata base of support, it is the > Nader campaign. I don't see any reason to believe that ... observe in polls and anecdotally. That is, the appearance of Nader may cau

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Thu Oct 26 08:06:02 PDT 2000

2248 More Green Party Shenanigans -- rank: 386

"In a speech to congressional interns this week, Ralph Nader said that Ed McGaa, the Green Party's Senate candidate ... to get a few thousand votes." At the same time, Nader, the party's presidential candidate in 2000, offered to appear ... corporate reforms. Assessing Wellstone's prospects in the November election, Nader said: "I don't see how he's going to lose." While Wellstone's campaign welcomed Nader's remarks, McGaa was puzzled by them. "It's bewildering ... the story: http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.16A.nader.wellstone.htm -- Joe R. Golowka Anarchist FAQ -- http://www.anarchyfaq ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Thu Aug 15 11:36:01 PDT 2002

2249 Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 386

Nathan, Your arguement only seems to prove the futility of voting. As you point out, third party platforms have many problems. But voting for Gore is a vote for an enemy - he isn't that much better then Bush. The whole system is a big sham and by participating in it ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Thu Jul 20 12:20:50 PDT 2000

2250 election demographics -- rank: 386

... media refers strictly to those news outlets. Here on earth, Nader got a grand total of 4 network TV stories over ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Thu Nov 9 18:16:57 PST 2000