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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:06 PM
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Poll question: Would you vote for Nader in 2004??
VOTE!
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:09 PM
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1. Hmmmm....
No one for Ralph?
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KCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:10 PM
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2. hm, that many for Bush?
What is this, freeper day?
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:11 PM
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3. I think it's the anti-anti-Nader vote
Or something like that.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:12 PM
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4. Wait, the Greens aren't even endorsing him, are they?
Who is he running for (besides himself, as usual)?
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:13 PM
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7. Not sure
Maybe he's going to start the Nader Party. He could become a perpetual candidate like that LaRouche guy.
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DU_Pushed_Me_Away Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:14 PM
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8. Grrr. The Nader factor!
I'm still mad. Go away Nader!
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:13 PM
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5. can't vote
need the option "Yes...I won't just give my vote to Democrats just because they claim to be superior"
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:15 PM
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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 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:53 PM
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21. yeah but he's right
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:54 PM
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23. He?
I thought it, but nevermind. About what?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:13 PM
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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.
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pasadenaboy Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:29 PM
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16. I totally agree
our system is undemocratic, but as long as it is, we have to vote for the Democratic candidate.
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LeahMira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 08:29 AM
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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?
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shamanstar Donating Member (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:16 PM
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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.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:19 PM
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12. yes,telling people to shut up
is a great way to get their vote!!
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minkyboodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:16 PM
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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
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pasadenaboy Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:28 PM
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14. a vote for St. Ralph
is a vote for W
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cryofan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:28 PM
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15. I will probably vote Nader unless Kucinich is on the ticket
It is that simple.
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:31 PM
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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.
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angka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:48 PM
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19. no.
or that is to say, never again.

(ducks)
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:52 PM
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20. You didn't have an option for
Ralph can rot and die in hell.

So I settled for no.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:53 PM
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22. No option for me
Yes, if there is no way in hell the Democrat is going to win.
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 12:00 AM
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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.
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Iverson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 05:57 AM
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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.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 06:25 AM
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26. you need another option, sgr
Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 06:37 AM by ulysses
"No, wasn't he responsible for the Cuyahoga River fire?"
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 07:54 AM
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27. heh.
:)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 08:22 AM
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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.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 08:25 AM
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29. No way in HELL! n/t
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 08:26 AM
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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.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 08:31 AM
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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.
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ignatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 10:22 AM
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33. Nope, I won't waste my vote(assuming it even gets counted)
n/t
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