Ralph Nader has drawn enough support for his campaign to amass 4,034,052 votes in Presidential elections.
Not too bad for a third party candidate.
Until you consider that is a combined number of votes in four separate elections.
That’s about one million votes per election. Or about 0.3% of the United States population.
Does Nader, or anyone for that matter, actually believe that there is a chance he will be the one on the steps of the Capitol building on January 20 next year?
With such an important election coming up, shouldn’t Nader himself consider the fact that he entered the race too late, has no real chance and should let the true candidates, those from the Democratic and Republican parties, take all the votes?
Democrats are still fuming over Nader’s participation in the 2000 election, claiming that the votes that Nader received (2,883,105 votes) would have gone to Al Gore, and in turn Gore would have won the election.
Although Nader won’t accept any blame for Gore’s loss, he does believe that Gore should have won the election, and was screwed over by Jeb Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court.
So far, this has been one of the most watched Presidential races in recent history. With so many people heading to the polls, and the results we have seen so far in this year’s primaries and caucuses, it seems that once again, this is going to be a very close race. Hopefully this year, Nader’s participation won’t influence the results as many Democrats claim it did eight years ago.
March 7, 2008 at 1:12 am |
The Democrats are in trouble if Nader really is going to be in this election. There’s a very good chance that there will be a great divide between Obama and Clinton supporters. So great in fact that those who align with either candidate won’t necessarily vote for the candidate who will represent the party for the presidential election. And if Nader gets in on this action, then McCain could almost walk into the Oval Office backwards.