Virtually every state s electoral vote is unchanged with or without Nader. That s even assuming every Nader voter would otherwise have voted for Gore. But CNN reports less than half Nader s voters would have done so. Between 20 and 40 percent would have voted for Bush. A large number would have stayed home.
Third parties are a proud and appropriate response to big money domination.
Disaffected Democrats, led by Iowans, used that strategy after the Civil War. Rebellious Republicans used it in 1912. Nader and the Greens are using it today. David Broder, dean of political reporters, says Nader put on the best campaign. Mike Wallace chose Nader s commercials as the campaign s best.