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226 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 645

At 06:10 PM 3/28/2004, Dennis Perrin wrote: >Welcome to Yoshie-land -- if there was a gun to her head, she'd reel off 17 >footnoted articles that "proved" that the gun didn't exist, or at least >didn't exist in the way that pro-Kerry leftists insisted ...

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Author:	kelley at pulpculture.org
Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:00:28 PST 2004

227 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 645

... wrote: >"Whether you're inspired by a real enthusiasm for Nader, >or merely want to lodge a defensible, effective protest vote ... do in 1996." > >Whereas in 2004, the retrospective judgement on Nader is >"It was individualist >adventurism and little else." Yeah, I ... like I learned something in the last 8 years: that Nader failed to deliver on the promise of movement-building, and ... indirectly brings up the first of the unpleasant >reservations about Nader: his refusal to address any of what pundits >call the social issues. While Buchanan thrives on them, Nader is >silent. He refuses to comment on abortion or affirmative ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 9 14:55:58 PDT 2004

228 Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 645

... Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> > Subject: Re: Pollitt on Nader > > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Halle" <john.halle at yale.edu ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Mon Oct 2 21:47:33 PDT 2000

229 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 645

... be saying this stuff. He is not using the leverage Nader gave for pushing the Dems to a more progressive agenda ... t that one reason the liberals justified a vote for Nader? He is giving away the store instead of heading to the bargaining table. marta >Ronnie Dugger, who presented Nader to the 1996 and 2000 Green conventions, >has rejected any Nader run in 2004 and agrees that it is absurb for ... doc.mhtml?i=20021202&s=dugger (excerpts below) > >"We, the Nader people, certainly put Bush close enough electorally for the >Supreme ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 16 13:37:47 PST 2002

230 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 645

... wrote: >Wasn't there something nasty said about him by Nader recently? <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8713-2004Jun26 ... recipient of an open letter from independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who seems stung that his former friend and supporter has ... not invited to the Washington premiere of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Nader, whose 6-foot-4 frame is a lean 190 pounds ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:29:07 PDT 2004

231 [lbo-talk] Support for Nader Higher Than in 2000 + Arab-American Votes -- rank: 645

... the current political >climate? > >2.) What is *their* attitude toward Nader--and how many of their >"organizers" do you know? 3 ... 17, 2004 by the Guardian/UK Surge in Support for Nader Spells Trouble for Kerry by Julian Borger in Washington A new poll suggested yesterday that Ralph Nader's independent presidential bid represented a serious threat to the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Mar 20 22:32:31 PST 2004

232 Nader draws 12,000 in Minneapolis -- rank: 634

> > Andrew English wrote: > > > The Ralph Nader/Green Party rally in the Target Center in Minneapolis drew ... and Phil Donahue. > > > > It is amazing to me that the Nader campaign can draw such large crowds for > > political rallies > > at ... times they > > are a-changing". > > > > However I am puzzled that Nader is able to mobilize large numbers of people > > for rallies ... the low single digits in the polls. > > > > Either the pro-Nader vote is being discounted when pollsters screen out > > "unlikely voters ... case we will see on Election Day whether or not Nader brings a lot > > of new voters > > to the voting booths ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Sun Sep 24 05:47:36 PDT 2000

233 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 634

>[lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters >mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com <snip ... aid and abet the Democratic Party's crime of excluding >>Nader from the ballots and disenfranchising working-class voters on >>the ... voters -- through criminal disenfranchisement >>laws...... > >Whatever it takes to keep Nader off the ballot in battleground >states, I'm for it ... electors where the Democratic Party dominates (Kerry 56%, Bush 30%, Nader 3%, according to the Center for Public Opinion, July 28 ... of utmost importance for the Democratic Party elite to disenfranchise Nader/Camejo support

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Aug 10 14:14:14 PDT 2004

234 Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 634

... time on their hands, as they demonstrated in challenging every Nader signature for ballot access in Illinois. > > > >Basically the argument seems ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Tue Sep 26 14:26:32 PDT 2000

235 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 634

... candidates. It's not a litmus test to note > that > Nader is not pure but is merely a "lesser lesser evil ... the government is doing, etc., etc. If we vote for Nader and the Greens, we are supporting a hopelessly bourgeois movement ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Wed Jun 23 16:32:59 PDT 2004

236 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 634

i was in calif then, too. you make this sound like it was some kind of a rational elective process. it wasn't. there were conflicts of vested interests, huge misinformation campaigns, well funded scare campaigns, and so forth. politics as usual. by the time the election rolled around, the average ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Thu Jun 24 22:37:47 PDT 2004

237 Reed on Nader -- rank: 634

[An unedited draft of Adolph Reed's forthcoming column in The Progressive.] Here we are again. It's the quadrennial presidential charade. Every four years progressives, leftists or whatever we are - you know, the people who read the Progressive, the Nation, In These Times and such publications, who go to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 10:05:17 PDT 2000

238 [lbo-talk] It's Official: Nader bid no concern for Kucinich -- rank: 634

... muslims4kucinich/archives/007600.php December 7, 2003 03:20 PM Nader bid no concern for Kucinich Originally published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Nader bid no concern for Kucinich 12/07/03 Hometown presidential ... that one of his staunchest campaign allies, consumer activist Ralph Nader, is weighing his own presidential bid. Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee and created a Web site: www.naderexplore04.org. Nader said he'll decide whether to run early next year ... urging Democrats to support Kucinich. Although some Democrats complain that Nader's third party candidacy cost Al Gore the White ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Fri Dec 12 11:25:00 PST 2003

239 What Nader fails to understand -- rank: 634

... From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org> > Subject: Re: What Nader fails to understand > > Hi, > > Sorry for getting pissed off, but ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Wed Feb 9 20:36:16 PST 2000

240 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader to McAuliffe -- rank: 634

Ralph Nader to Terry McAuliffe: Stop Democratic Party dirty tricks trying to keep the Nader-Camejo Campaign off the ballot. July 30, 2004 Terry McAuliffe ... firms from inappropriately and maliciously taking steps to keep the Nader-Camejo ticket off the ballot. I was disturbed to read ... at the convention to plan a national campaign to keep Nader-Camejo off the ballot and limit the choices of voters ... As this coordinated conspiracy by the Democratic Party to keep Nader-Camejo off the ballot unfolds, you should be aware that ... taken by the Democrats: a.. Harassment, threats, and abuse of Nader-Camejo petitioners a.. Attempting to spoil a

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat Jul 31 11:24:58 PDT 2004