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We asked nicely.

I don't know why Nader would think that reprising his 2000 and 2004 campaigns will work out any better, this time ... except that he has an ego the size of Alaska and the obstinacy of the Flat Earth Society.

Which he does. So I guess that no one should be surprised that he's going to tilt at that windmill, anyway.

Of course, the 2000 race was freakishly close, Nader was largely irrelevant in 2004. We can hope that he'll be similarly ineffectual, in 2008--only that the Democrat nominee is the one who's clearly ahead, this time around, as the polls collated at Real Clear Politics consistently predict in an Obama-McCain race.

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Date: 2008-02-24 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jmargethe.livejournal.com
i don't know. i'm glad he's running. i think it's important to keep pushing the fringes. and i don't believe it's just ego; i think he's sincere about wanting to remind people that the spectrum doesn't end with obama.

so i say - kudos to him. i think he knows the race isn't at stake - i don't believe he would run this time if he thought it were! - and i respect him for it. sure, i'm voting for obama, but he's not the messiah, and a little opposition - especially the kind that calls him on the carpet where he needs to do better - is a good thing.
my two cents, anyway.

Date: 2008-02-25 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saavedra77.livejournal.com
I hope so. I guess I'm just feeling a little shell-shocked from too many close elections. And sometimes I feel a little perplexed about what the rest of the electorate wants--I mean, the ones who voted for Bush twice.

But 2008 promises to be a very different year, and the likely Democratic candidate inspires a lot more confidence than the last few have. If that holds true, then, yeah, Nader's role could be very different than in the past.

Crossing my fingers. :)

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