Without Greens, Nader Faces Uphill Battle

[wyldwolf]

Spurned by the party that embraced him four years ago, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) pressed ahead on Monday with state-by-state petition drives to get on the ballot.


But after the Green Party nominated someone else for president this weekend, Nader faced an uphill battle to match his 2000 campaign when he was on 43 state ballots, said Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. The Green Party is automatically on 22 state ballots.


The Nader campaign is pursing a patchwork strategy that involves running as a third party candidate in some states, and as an independent in others.


Complicating Nader's efforts to collect some one million signatures nationwide are Democrats who are challenging his petition drives and conservative groups that are pitching in to help Nader, an icon to many liberals, to get on the ballot.

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[BayCityProgressive]

1. I am a Green

But I support many Democrats, i am helping one with a state house seat campaign right now. I am so glad Nader was rejected. I would have never voted for him, he is an egotistical prick. I live in Michigan so depending on how close the election is, that will determine whether or not I vote for Cobb or for Kerry. The Kerry memo on Latin America REALLY REALLY pisses me off though and I don't know if I could support him now.

[Warpy]

2. yeah, Kerry's said some dumb things, playing to the middle

He must be back to taking campaign advice from the <gag> DLC.

He's still better than Bush, if only because he's not another nutty Armageddon freak who wants to destroy the world so he can git Raptured.

I'll hold my nose and vote for Kerry to get rid of Bush. The Democrats could have run a hairball one of my cats hacked up and I'd vote for it to get rid of Bush.

Kerry will have 4 years to convince me he's going to do something for working people. If all he does is more of the business as usual that left 80% of us out of the Clinton "boom," he can kiss my vote goodbye in 2008.

[Massacure]

3. The green party has ballots in these states

Alaska
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Hawaii
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Wisconsin

The colored ones are in close states. It is a good thin Nader got shaken off these ballots. Hopefully he will stay off the these as well.

[Michael Costello]

4. I'm petitioning for Nader

I'll be petitioning for Nader in my state. As it looks now, Nader has a better chance of getting on the ballot here than Cobb.