Would you vote for Nader in 2004??

[ShaneGR]

Poll question: Would you vote for Nader in 2004??

VOTE!

[ShaneGR]

1. Hmmmm....

No one for Ralph?

[KCDem]

2. hm, that many for Bush?

What is this, freeper day?

[ShaneGR]

3. I think it's the anti-anti-Nader vote

Or something like that.

[jpgray]

4. Wait, the Greens aren't even endorsing him, are they?

Who is he running for (besides himself, as usual)?

[ShaneGR]

7. Not sure

Maybe he's going to start the Nader Party. He could become a perpetual candidate like that LaRouche guy.

[DU_Pushed_Me_Away]

8. Grrr. The Nader factor!

I'm still mad. Go away Nader!

[Terwilliger]

5. can't vote

need the option "Yes...I won't just give my vote to Democrats just because they claim to be superior"

[ShaneGR]

9. Start your own poll

Besides, I don't think you'd ever vote for a Democrat anyways. You're very anti-Dem.

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[Forkboy]

21. yeah but he's right

[ShaneGR]

23. He?

I thought it, but nevermind. About what?

[IndianaGreen]

6. The Electoral College is slanted in favor of a 2-party system

The only chance we have of getting rid of Bush is by voting for the Democratic candidate.

While I do support the end of the duopoly and electoral reforms such as proportional representation and the abolition of the Electoral College, those are long term goals.

[pasadenaboy]

16. I totally agree

our system is undemocratic, but as long as it is, we have to vote for the Democratic candidate.

[LeahMira]

31. They are, but...

While I do support the end of the duopoly and electoral reforms such as proportional representation and the abolition of the Electoral College, those are long term goals.

... the longest journey begins with the first step. If ever the problems with the Electoral College were evident it was the last election yet now the "answer" is that we get bright new voting machines of dubious quality and nothing has been done about the EC.

Really, ladies and gentlemen. When the right wingers are chomping at the bit to amend the constitution over gay marriage, what's with the left that's keeping us from bringing up the Electoral College? For some reason the right doesn't worry itself about "long term goals." It doesn't commence to study the issue, set up task forces, or discuss it on the talk show circuit. Plus, if the Electoral College were a right-wing issue, I sincerely doubt they'd have their candidates refrain from agitating because of the possible appearance of self-interest or whatever.

If we don't ask for... or maybe demand... what we want, we won't get it, will we?

So, how about we ask Messers Clark and Dean to have a few of their brighter workers do a little research to find out if the population in the areas that claim they need the EC to even out their representation really is so sparse that the EC is still a valid redress? It should take maybe a day or so because the 2000 census info is on the internet... in detail. (My boss, a demographer, taught me how to get relevant stats from it in about five minutes!) So, do we want this or not?

[shamanstar]

10. voting for nader

really got some sort of point across last time didnt it? people sure made their voices heard.
maybe they can shut up this time and we wont have to have bush for another 4 years.

[Forkboy]

12. yes,telling people to shut up

is a great way to get their vote!!

[minkyboodle]

11. what a lovely poll

Jesus wonder what side of the issue you are coming from. I ain't voting for Nader IF he runs but godamn these constant Nader hissy fits on DU are not very flattering.
Scott

[pasadenaboy]

14. a vote for St. Ralph

is a vote for W

[cryofan]

15. I will probably vote Nader unless Kucinich is on the ticket

It is that simple.

[ShaneGR]

17. I'd vote for Kucinich

If he was Dem nominee. I'd know we were were going to lose, but I'd vote for him.

[angka]

19. no.

or that is to say, never again.

(ducks)

[Clark Can WIN]

20. You didn't have an option for

Ralph can rot and die in hell.

So I settled for no.

[Walt Starr]

22. No option for me

Yes, if there is no way in hell the Democrat is going to win.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

24. If he truly runs in 04..

...it will be his admission that he truly HATES America and wouldn't mind seeing it fall to the Bushites. If Nader had a heart, he'd drop this presidential dream and help out the Democrats in some way.

[Iverson]

25. Where's the Green candidate?

Unfortunately, this poll discussed Nader strictly in terms of the two major parties and doesn't recognize the possibility of a different Green nominee.

Also, I'm sure that many people's answers are conditional. Mine is, and for that reason I do not choose from the alternatives presented. No one, including friends, gets a blank check from me.

[ulysses]

26. you need another option, sgr

"No, wasn't he responsible for the Cuyahoga River fire?"

[KG]

27. heh.

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. Well

I would have selected NO, but I can't say that Ralph is not my friend.

Still, mentally add me in as a vote for "as yet unnamed Dem" this next fall.

[Padraig18]

29. No way in HELL! n/t

[CWebster]

30. no

but I see no reason to go out of my way to bash him, either. I have always admired and respected his service to this country.

[terrya]

32. I learned my lesson in 2000. Yes, I voted for Nader.

I also briefly volunteered with the local Green Party.

I had this impression then that there wasn't any real differences between the two parties. How wrong, how naive, how stupid I was then.

I don't quite know why Nader always seems to put down the Democrats, btw. Given Nader's anathema towards corporate interests, I would think that Nader would be more harsh towards the Republicans.

[ignatius]

33. Nope, I won't waste my vote(assuming it even gets counted)

n/t