Who is to say the IF Nader had not run, Gore wouldn't have performed even
worse in the campaign? There was no major third party candidate in the
1988 election and Dukakis lost all by himself. There is every bit as much
reason to believe that Nader was a burr in Gore's saddle that made him
run
we don't want, when there is a
candidate who is articulating virtually every issue we care about with
clarity and intelligence? The answer is a clear no -- the Nader/Gore
dichotomy is a big exaggeration. Here's why.
The overwhelming majority of states are shoe-ins for either Bush or Gore. In
fact,
