It was announced today that Ralph Nader will be appearing on Tim Russert’s venerable politics show “Meet the Press” this Sunday.
For those that don’t remember, Nader is the aging social activist who torpedoed Al Gore’s campaign in 2000 and didn’t help John Kerry in 2004. Nader is popular among liberals, particularly environmentalists and anti-corporatists. In 2000 and 2004, Nader received only one percent or so of the vote — but since that was the margin of Kerry’s loss, and Gore actually won the popular vote (but not by enough) the actual influence of Nader’s “1% campaigns” could be called monumental.
Either way, it’s bad news for Hillary and Obama. But since Democratic voters have been turning out in record numbers for the primaries, and Republicans have generally stayed home, not even Ralph Nader may be able to derail the Blue Party this year.
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