Difference between Nader/LaDuke 2000 and Nader/Camejo

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:49 PM -0700 8/20/04, Michael Perelman wrote:
> The only question seems to be whether punishing the Democrats to
> keep them from moving further to the right outweighs the risk of 4
> more Bush years.  Everyone here knows that powerful grass roots
> organizing would be a more effective way of keeping the Democrats
> from getting worse.  That is why Nixon was in many respects to the
> left of Clinton, but typing such a recommendation does not make it
> happen.  It takes hard work from lots of people.  In any case there
> are no easy answers.

I think that those who voted for Nader/LaDuke in 2000 hoping that
their protest votes will punish the Democrats and prevent them from
moving further to the right -- about one in 10 Nader/LaDuke voters,
probably thinking like Barbara Ehrenreich, Manning Marable, and
Norman Solomon, to take just three examples -- are by and large not
supporting Nader/Camejo 2004.  That's good for them, and good for us.
--
Yoshie

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