Ralph Nader

[Deacon]

How many more times will Nader Run?

I think until he is dead, and opinions

[FucangLong]

Nader will keep running as long as he can. If Nader wasn't here, the elections would be either Repub or Demo, pretty much. Him and the other third party candidates give us choices. I for one am glad that Nader is still running.

[Nitrus]

I'm a brit, who is Nader?

[FucangLong]

He is the current Green Party candidate, and has been for like the past 30 years or so.

[Deacon]

Ralph!!!!!!!!!

http://www.nndb.com/people/788/000023719/nader-sm.jpg

[Jim]

I have to say, Nader is pretty hot. :P

Actually, if I could have voted in the 2004 elections, he would have had my vote. I agree with his democratic views aswell as many other opinions we share.

[Defender]

Nader on last election wasn't the green party candidate. If I remember correctly it was a big issue and he ran as independent.

[Deacon]

Do you think any other party besides Demo and Repub really has a chance in the presidential elections?

[Extreme89]

not until he is dead lol, but surely for as many time as he can

[IRoNiK]

There is no doubt in my mind that Ralph Nader isn't actually trying to get elected, but rather to set a Guiness book of world records for running in the most elections and for being denied the most number of times. Perhaps it is his claim to fame that he is that guy that can never get elected. Green Party is just too radical to be realistic.

[bigboy]

I don't think he gets that if he runs in the green party he won't get elected. I could see him getting elected. The US would have some real problems then.

[Deacon]

Maybe, but the reasons the Demo/Repub parties are so high up is because they have the most $$$$

[bobbylien]

Or it could be because none of the other parties have ever picked a great candidate in the past 70 years.

[Deacon]

Yes that is also true, but the Demo and Repub's are like to big Pigs eating all the food, and the Green and Other Parties are like the flies

[eggs]

Nader on last election wasn't the green party candidate. If I remember correctly it was a big issue and he ran as independent.


you are correct. i am a green party member.
in '04 he took alot of our votes away and made us not shine i suppose would be a good way of putting it.

our canidata for that year was Cook.
whome i did a write in vote for.

[rastaman]

The only way America will have viable 3rd Party orÂ*Â*President is if the 3rd party is built/developed locally at the school board, small town, city, and state level.Â*Â*Green Parties and Independents that try and make a run for the White House during any given Presidential Election will never win given the current strategy 3rd Parties are currently using.Â*Â*

Once Greens and Independents build their party base at the local level, then they would have the clout, voter support and campaign war chest to go up against the corrupt crooks in both the Democrat and Republican Parties.

Remeber politics is all local!!!!!

[Mayberry]

Do you think any other party besides Demo and Repub really has a chance in the presidential elections?I think Rasta has it right, until other parties can penetrate the local levels, they haven't got a chance. An organization called Christian Exodus has the right idea http://www.christianexodus.org I would rather see it done on a non-denominational basis, but these guys seem to be the only ones REALLY trying to do anything more than talk.

[utahraptor]

How many more times will Nader Run?

I think until he is dead, and opinions


If he dies this year. He will run 2 more times just for spite?

LOL

[Anti-Racism]

I for one am glad that Nader is still running.


I am glad for Ralph Nader. He would not make a great president, but he makes a great candidate to remind us that there's another way of doing things outside the Republican/Democrat split. I would like to see him take a more practical stance on environmental issues and overpopulation hwoever.

[firefox]

This is true. The Libertarian Party runs high level candidates for the same reason. We don't expect them to win, but it generates a lot of positive PR that can be used on the more localized levels.

[Anti-Racism]

This is true. The Libertarian Party runs high level candidates for the same reason. We don't expect them to win, but it generates a lot of positive PR that can be used on the more localized levels.


And if those candidates opened up the necessary 2-5% of the vote and got us a third party system, it'd be a victory for literally all political persuasions.

I was tempted to vote for Ross Perot (!) for the same reason. Break the two party sham.

[underdawg]

I like Ralph Nader, but I realize he doesn't have a chance in hell of getting elected (until the winner takes all) approach to the electoral college is changed. He is a smart man and should realize this himself. He should work on getting that changed before he ever plans to run for office again.