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2446 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 345

... that Com. Doug supported voting for Gore over voting for Nader in 2000 and, if I am correct in remembering this, he and others who thought this way were wrong. Nader's candidacy absolutely made the Green Party. There's just no question about it. Obviously the follow-through from Nader has not been there, but it's still true that ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Wed Nov 12 09:26:22 PST 2003

2447 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 345

I think Cockburn is right that it was Nader who put a spark under Gore and made him competitive in 2000. But Nader should have dropped out in the last two weeks when ... something worse but not substantially different. So a vote for Nader was a way to reject the incumbency. I'll vote ... 2003 lweiger at umich.edu wrote: > > No, I voted for Nader and urged others to as well. There's a bit ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Wed Nov 12 10:17:14 PST 2003

2448 [lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!! -- rank: 345

... at it this way. I think we all agree that Nader's impact >> on the 2000 election was pretty marginal, and ... case, then maybe we shouldn't worry very much about >> Nader's impact on the coming election. > > ??? > > There's a 1% or so chance that Nader's candidacy will swing the > election to the Republicans. Why ... Florida. I can understand most reasons to not vote for Nader. But I cannot see any rational reason to hold him ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Dec 8 10:47:30 PST 2003

2449 [lbo-talk] George Soros and the Rise of the Neo-Centrics -- rank: 345

***** GEORGE SOROS AND THE RISE OF THE NEO-CENTRICS By Walt Contreras Sheasby, <WSheasby at cs.com> 2003 has seen the rise of a new current in US politics, best described as Neo-Centrics, or simply Neo-Cens, for ease of comparison with a better known defection of Socialists to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 15 12:56:52 PST 2003

2450 [lbo-talk] Electoral Strategy in 2004? -- rank: 345

Brad Mayer wrote: (a lengthy post, which I've left uncut at the end of this one, because I couldn't decide which parts were the relevant ones to reply to, so I apologize for eating bandwidth.) I'd agree that Kucinich is a waste of time, but that's on ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Nov 18 12:12:34 PST 2003

2451 Gore did it to himself -- rank: 345

... lived in Florida :-) I really, really wanted to vote for Nader in 2000 because a.) I admire Nader a great deal and b.) while I do like Gore ... It hardly matters how many people voted for Gore or Nader here in Florida, as Katherine Harris wiped her ass with ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Wed Aug 7 15:13:39 PDT 2002

2452 [lbo-talk] Lose-Lose or Win-Win? (Re: Tariq Ali Reiterates) -- rank: 345

... loses, it won't be because of massive votes for Nader and other candidates on the left, but probably because Bush ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:17:23 PST 2004

2453 [lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!! -- rank: 345

... at it this way. I think we all agree that Nader's >>>impact on the 2000 election was pretty marginal, and ... case, then maybe we shouldn't worry very >>>much about Nader's impact on the coming election. >> >>??? >> >>There's a 1% or so chance that Nader's candidacy will swing the >>election to the Republicans. Why ... Florida. > >I can understand most reasons to not vote for Nader. But I cannot >see any rational reason to hold him ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Dec 8 11:46:20 PST 2003

2454 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 345

... wrote: >But heck-- let's just say I vote for Nader for prom king. He's a >heck of a guy ... went in for the personal bashing some folks did on Nader. I just think he picked a terrible strategy and he ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Aug 6 04:49:00 PDT 2002

2455 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for the Battleground States -- rank: 345

... the popular vote, depressing votes for anti-war candidates like Nader, Cobb, Brown, et al., _and_ all actions taken by the ... they did, I'd also "take responsibility" for consequences of Nader, Cobb, Brown, et al. singly or collectively swinging any or ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Nov 1 16:45:28 PST 2004

2456 [lbo-talk] the latest from Ralph -- rank: 345

I would trust Nader's opinion over Glen Ford's anyday about Obama, but is Nader so disaffected by the Democratic party that he can't ... a campaign BEFORE choosing to put himself on the ballot? Nader should have been more visible early on, but now obviously ... at 12:55 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Thursday, Ralph Nader was on Democracy Now with our good friend > > Amy Goodman ...

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Author:	3.3.3.
Date:	Sat Feb 2 11:07:27 PST 2008

2457 [lbo-talk] Amendment 36 in Colorado: Ending the Winner-Take-All System -- rank: 345

Here is what should unite all -- including Nader and Kerry supporters -- but Republicans. Vote Yes on Amendment 36 ... the initiative is a "one person, one vote" system. The Nader/Camejo campaign believes the winner-take-all election system pushes ... allow more voters to vote for the candidates they support. ("Nader/Camejo Campaign Endorses Ballot Initiatives in Colorado: Citizen Initiatives 35 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Nov 1 07:09:42 PST 2004

2458 Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 345

... second time around, which occured in the midst of the Nader campaign, he threatened to do the same thing again, but ... forced to decease after people complained about this to the Nader campaign. Jim F. On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:45 ... distinct from the Association of Green Parties with > which > >Ralph Nader is associated. There's ill-feeling between the two > groups ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Nov 9 13:15:07 PST 2001

2459 [lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER -- rank: 345

>[lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Mon Mar 1 15 ... mhtml?i=20040308&s=chait030804 >>THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER >>Make You Ralph >>by Jonathan Chait > >Interesting stuff. He seems ... in both the political >and psychopathological senses: <snip> >In 1980, Nader told Rolling Stone, "In the last year we've seen ... vote for Tweedledum and Tweedledee." (Liberals >today who anguish over Nader's insistence that no important >differences exist between the two ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Mar 2 05:30:20 PST 2004

2460 [lbo-talk] An Open Letter to Michael & Ralph: Dog John Kerry and the Democratic Party! -- rank: 345

Dear Messrs. Michael Moore and Ralph Nader: I know you two had a falling out, but it ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Nov 8 22:25:07 PST 2004