This morning on Meet the Press, Ralph Nader, perennial independent candidate who many accuse of stealing votes from Al Gore in 2000, handing the election to George Bush, announced that he is running for President.
Nader sites the fact that neither Obama, Clinton, nor McCain propose a single-payer health care plan -- that is, providing all Americans with health care from the government and not disparate insurance companies. Canada and most of Western Europe have single-payer systems, and Clinton and Obama have acknowledged that such a system is ideal, but impossible in the US, given the power of the American insurance industry.
The current presidential candidates seem unperturbed by Nader's announcement.
Let's take a look back at Nader's effect in the 2000 election:
2000:
Bush: 47.9%
Gore: 48.4%
Nader: 2.7%
in Florida:
Gore lost to Bush by 537 votes
Nader recieved 97,488 votes
Maybe they should start worrying!
5 comments:
genius by the republicans is all I can say... what a time to bring out the secret weapon
ahhhh, George. It's not funny because it is so so true!
I think it's completely bogus for Nader to allege that there isn't enough of a difference between John McCain and Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to substantiate his third party candidacy.
His platform will be nearly identical to Obama's or Clinton's sans single-payer health care. He is just completely unreasonable and inflexible. If he is so enamored of the multi-party democracy, single-payer health care policy of Canada, he is welcome to move there!
And not impose his knee-jerk liberalism on the country, bringing us 4 more years of the GOP (and the years in Iraq, and originialist supreme court justices that that implies...)
count chocula strikes again
well said Annie, I would have to agree.
There is actually no logical explanation except that he is working for the Republicans. Lets hope that the saying "cant fool me twice" is true for Americans in November 08.
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