Individual parties in various states gathered signatures to put him on the ballot before he even agreed. More important than Nader himself will be the ideas around which these parties organize, and the ways they go about it, after next week's election. While addressing such issues, Nader has focused his campaign more on the nefarious influence of money in politics. Nader responds that politicians who mean it about the problems with campaign financing should campaign that way. Not only does that lead by example, but it protects them from the corrupting influence of financial contributions.
People feel they've lost complete control over politics, the workplace.
They think all politicians are crooks. It crosses all ideological boundaries. Nader's volunteer campaign workers may tend to be left-wing activists. But not his voters. Polls from the L.A. Times national survey to the most recent Hartford Courant Connecticut query found that Nader draws about a quarter of his votes from Bill Clinton, a quarter from Bob Dole and half from Ross Perot.