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526 [lbo-talk] Chomsky, Nader, & the Green Party (March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH) -- rank: 552

... for John Kerry -- ask Americans not to cooperate with Ralph >>Nader and the Green Party are a vocal and yet tiny ... I doubt more than a handful >of union organizers support Nader. I guess you could call Noam >Chomsky a "sectarian intellectual ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Mar 20 13:29:54 PST 2004

527 [lbo-talk] Nader Scrambles to Collect Thousands of Signatures washingtonpost.com -- rank: 552

... and Louisiana will waive their 5,000-signature requirement if Nader pays a $500 fee. The District asks for fewer than ... Maryland, about 28,000; and Virginia, 10,000. In all, Nader will need about 620,000 valid signatures to reach his ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Apr 3 09:58:15 PST 2004

528 Nader -- rank: 552

... LBO Doug gave a very lukewarm suggestion to vote for Nader then if he was on the ballot in one's ... I don't feel that the argument to vote for Nader rather than cast a blank ballot (voting for Gore being ... clear. But the current Counterpunch has a brief story on Nader being incredibly mushy-mouthed on the questions of sanctions on ... I could conceive of someone's choosing to *campaign* for Nader, in so far as that constituted expanding one's direct ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jun 26 12:45:25 PDT 2000

529 Roger, Bruce, and Lori -- rank: 552

... didn't follow that link, the conlusion (the reference to Nader's Freeman article is his 40-year-old essay denouncing ... It is easy to dismiss these conservative sentiments. After all, >Nader's campaign consists mainly of attacks on big corporations and ... to protect >consumers. Nevertheless, there is a conservative strain in Nader's >thinking that survives to the present day. For example ... acceptance to the Association of State Green Parties in June, Nader >appealed to conservatives for support. > >"Don't conservatives, in contrast ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 9 14:24:38 PDT 2002

530 Nader -- rank: 552

Good God, do you really believe this? I think Nader is shallow and boring. Rather than criticizing capitalism, he criticizes ... can society, any society, tolerate them for more than instant? Nader's endless bleakness is belied by all those fruits of ... naysayer can maintain that this stuff is all bad, yet Nader comes as close as is humanly possible. This is precisely ... what make conservatives of so many undergraduates. The listen to Nader and his message of fear and depression, and they just ...

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Author:	Dhlazare at aol.com
Date:	Wed Jun 10 08:39:15 PDT 1998

531 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 552

There's an alternative universe out there where Ralph Nader didn't run and there was no Green Party spoilers ... doesn't get elected because there's no bump from Nader voters who vote DP down the ticket. In my neck ... woods, Stabenow loses to Spence Abraham for the same reason (Nader got 2% in Mich, Stabenow won by 1%, the Green Senate candidate got .09% so Nader voters bumped up Stabenow). So in that universe the Senate ... Sam Smith's analysis of the vote in Progressive Review. Nader's vote was mostly from new voters not disaffected Democrats. Had Nader not run, they would not have voted. Those were ...

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Author:	Alan Jacobson
Date:	Mon Aug 5 14:05:37 PDT 2002

532 Green Strategy: Replace Electoral College with National Instant Runoff -- rank: 552

Well, at least one GP person seems to be taking up at least part of Nathen's strategy.... November, 8 2000 Stop Bush's Theft of the People's Will Dear friends, It's after 5am on the East coast and things couldn't be more insane. At 2:20am, they ...

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Author:	Ampersand B. Deutsch
Date:	Wed Nov 8 06:59:35 PST 2000

533 [lbo-talk] Nader-Kerry meeting "may be in the works," maybe -- rank: 552

... me if both sides were moving towards a deal whereby Nader doesn't contest the 18-20 so-called battleground states ... Monday, April 05, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Nader-Kerry meeting "may be in the works," maybe > Kerry Says Nader Meeting May Be 'In the Works' > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House ... Monday a meeting may be "in the works" with Ralph > Nader (news - web sites), whose own bid as an independent is ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Mon Apr 5 21:38:13 PDT 2004

534 [lbo-talk] Nader, again -- rank: 552

... up.] RECOVERED HISTORY EVEN AL FROM SAYS IT WASN'T NADER'S FAULT http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?cp ... progressive majority" if you add the votes won by Ralph Nader to those that Gore won. They maintain that Gore lost ... think they're wrong on all counts. The assertion that Nader's marginal vote hurt Gore is not borne out by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 10 16:02:39 PDT 2003

535 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein & Nader etc. -- rank: 552

... at yale.edu> Subject: [DEBATE] : Re: Open Letter to Ralph Nader the surreal belief is that you get "real change" through ... kind of "strategic voting" line is really unfortunate. Not that >Nader's Greens are necessarily the kind of alternative that we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 30 10:12:58 PST 2004

536 [lbo-talk] Kerry in '72: Be Your Own Ralph Nader -- rank: 552

... will likely face a challenge on the left from Ralph Nader soon, but 32 years ago, Kerry showered his possible electoral ... College. Kerry implored Dartmouth students "to be their own Ralph Nader" in opposing the Vietnam War, urging the audience to "break ... to involve themselves in politics with greater zeal. Regarding Ralph Nader, Kerry said that opponents of the war "must be public ... in every aspect of our lives," as Kerry apparently thought Nader did. Kerry also took then-controversial positions relating to those ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Apr 11 00:03:21 PDT 2004

537 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader as Condorcet winner -- rank: 552

... assertion that under the > Condorcet version of Proportional Representation Ralph Nader would have won > the Presidential election. Well, here is the ... To quote from page 3: "Examining the pre-election rankings, Nader beats Buchanan (659-200), Gore (527-500), and Bush (562 ...

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Author:	Tim Francis-Wright
Date:	Wed Mar 31 22:46:20 PST 2004

538 Nader -- rank: 552

... and a vision of what a just society looks like. Nader completely fails that test -- he flunked it right out in the open while "running" for president. While Nader has done some good things, by and large I think ...

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Author:	jf noonan
Date:	Wed Jun 10 11:26:00 PDT 1998

539 [lbo-talk] 1979 (THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER) -- rank: 552

>[lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER >Christian Gregory christian11 at mindspring.com, Tue Mar 2 19:39:36 PST 2004 <snip> >>Jimmy Carter = Afghanistan + Paul Volcker >> >>It was "July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first >>directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Mar 7 12:49:20 PST 2004

540 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali endorses Kerry, denounces Nader -- rank: 552

You're right about the nuance of what Nader says about "corporate socialism," but Raimondo's piece was saying ... his special use of the term. And Doug piled on. Nader is not an old conservative. He doesn't go far ... org Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali endorses Kerry, denounces Nader At

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Sat Oct 30 23:23:47 PDT 2004