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2491 [lbo-talk] Medea B: support David Cobb -- rank: 345

... I spent a sleepless night last night thinking about the Nader/Camejo ticket and the Green Party's dilemma. I love and admire both Nader and Camejo, and have had a close working relationship with ... any closer to the world we want to build. The Nader/Camejo ticket can't win, will create tremendous division within ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 07:25:28 PDT 2004

2492 Fwd: Fw: Seattle '99, marriage party of the Left and the Ri ght? -- rank: 345

[Thanks to Angela, the latest from the Dutch group De Fabel van de illegaal.] Seattle '99, marriage party of the Left and the Right? At the end of november the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will discuss their new Millennium Round in Seattle. The North American town will ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 15:53:14 PST 1999

2493 Fwd:ELECTION DAY A Means of State Control [Free Republic] -- rank: 345

... proudly voting for Jesse Jackson in '88, Clinton in '92, Nader in '96, and Nader in '00, really were more than futile gestures, either in ... the reasonably likely outcomes, the best I can see is Nader pulling 5-6% nationally (tomorrows SF Examiner says Nader is at 8% in Ca. Anybody who thinks he can ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Jul 22 18:08:56 PDT 2000

2494 it's heating up -- rank: 345

... com> Nathan Newman wrote: >My guess is that such a Nader success will probably kill any potential union >support for the ... why you're voting for McReynolds? Because a vote for Nader -might get noticed? In a question about what I would ... noted that I would prefer to vote for McReynolds than Nader. I noted this was not a strategic vote but merely ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Oct 25 13:00:25 PDT 2000

2495 it's heating up -- rank: 345

Nathan Newman wrote: > Those who think a Nader "spoiler" role will be an argument for the Dems > moving ... in the party will actually > be able to use the Nader campaign as a handy scapegoat. And a heck of a ... join in the attack. > My guess is that such a Nader success will probably kill any potential union > support for the ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:54:37 PDT 2000

2496 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 345

... a fairly sizeable Bush win with an unexpected surge in Nader support underneath, far > outstripping the estimates of most of the ... vigorous electorate still > energized by the unexpected surprise of the Nader percentages. A contentious debate on > social security in year one ... see this dark horse running on the Republican ticket against Nader and a lame, last-ditch > Democratic candidate in 2004. I'm betting that Nader does su

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sat Oct 21 15:05:17 PDT 2000

2497 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 345

... posted earlier the reform movement leadership in Texas has endorsed Nader. I don't have a clue if Nader has the money to follow through and exploit this endorsement ...

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Author:	Steve Perry
Date:	Sat Oct 21 11:36:36 PDT 2000

2498 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 345

... posted earlier the reform movement leadership in Texas has endorsed Nader. I don't have a clue if Nader has the money to follow through and exploit this endorsement ... people -- because they did not vote before. As a result, Nader > >is seriously undercounted. > > > >Is that true? > > Could well be, but ... on stated intentions, > demographics, and past voting behavior, so if Nader draws in a lot of > first-time voters - because of ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Sat Oct 21 11:23:34 PDT 2000

2499 everything's really ok -- rank: 345

OK, you don't always completely ignore IMF conditions. Your Fortune article attributes the IMF's conditions to the Treasury Department's desire to mollify anti-IMF Congressmen who demand something "in return" for the bailout money. (Thus nicely deflecting responsibility for the IMF's conditions to the IMF's opponents ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Wed Oct 11 16:50:39 PDT 2000

2500 [lbo-talk] Booing Manning Marable/the long ascent -- rank: 345

... com/feature2.cfm/ID/3376 ....Therein lies the problem of Nader's candidacy. Even those to whom his message is most ... is much worse than Gore, and that a vote for Nader is trivial. Perhaps those in the "sewage" of America have ... social security, and child-care to survive, a vote for Nader may be too much to risk. It is painfully obvious ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Mon Mar 15 14:44:54 PST 2004

2501 Ralph the Leninist -- rank: 345

... Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> > >As the backbiting escalates, any >Nader symp is likely to feel increasingly p.o.'ed at ... of our pro-Gore comrades. -I see the attacks on Nader as an increasingly vicious attempt at character -assassination, and I ... per se. I did take note of some distortions of Nader's position, some blatant others devious. The bitterness of Nader's characterizations of Gore are well-taken. If I was ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Wed Nov 1 11:38:21 PST 2000

2502 FW: Re: [ASDnet] Max Sawicky on the election -- rank: 345

... 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% of ... the higher brackets. Of those > self-identifying as working class, Nader got 3%, compared with 2% for > the self-i.d ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Fri Nov 10 15:22:44 PST 2000

2503 Gitlin Iz Dope -- rank: 345

... Gitlin http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/08/nader/index.html At this writing, there's a good chance that Ralph Nader's self-declared &quot;conscience&quot; vote in Florida will ... the vehement Green shrug. CNN reported that about half of Nader supporters there would have voted for Gore if Nader wasn't on the ticket -- more than enough votes to ...

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Author:	Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin
Date:	Fri Nov 10 13:30:25 PST 2000

2504 Ralph the Leninist -- rank: 345

Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca>: > >Perhaps Nader supporters should take solace in the > >fact that Naders campaign ... poor people don't > have the luxury of voting for Nader, somehow the call lacks credibility." I don't see any ... Moreover, visibility is a kind of legitimation -- the issues which Nader was trying to

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Wed Nov 1 12:22:32 PST 2000

2505 ChuckO: "Bunch of fucking retards" -- rank: 345

... were overwhelmingly liberal students, most of whom would normally love > > Nader. But when Nader's name was mentioned in the introduction, > spontaneous > > hissing broke ... Bunch of fucking retards. > > With such language, you wonder why Nader's vote totals collapsed? As I've > said, a lot ... the hell were they supporting him in the first place? Nader was chosen by thousands of activists to be their Presidential ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Nov 10 11:12:53 PST 2000