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Re: RAT Third Party Candidate Lessons from Minnesota



What I meant to say, and probably didn't say it very well--is that a third party vote is not necessarily throwing your vote away.  That is the only positive lesson that I think Ventura has to offer.
 
Re: Buchanan again, I simply think that his switch from a mainstream to a third party will be his demise.  It proves that he will do anything to try to get elected, as well as that he is unelectable.  This is what I think the overall electorate will take from his Reform Party run.
 
On the other hand, Nader has stayed with the Greens all along--not as a political expedient.  That will keep a little of the cycnicism off of him, I think.
 
 
Laura Winton
fluffysingler@prodigy.net
www.karawane.org
 
"Those poor kids.  So young.  So nauseous."
--Krusty the Klown Telethon for Motion Sickness
-----Original Message-----
From: Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>
To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: RAT Third Party Candidate Lessons from Minnesota


> Anyone remember John Anderson?
>
> I thought not.
>


Oh, I remember John Anderson.  Probably would've voted
for him if I had been old enough.

I also remember Ralph Nader.  I voted for him in 1996.
I'll remember him in 2004 if he decides to run.  And
I'll remember the Green Party and the matching funds
they'll have earned if the turn out for Ralph goes
high enough.

And PLEASE folks!  Do NOT equate Jesse Ventura w/Ralph
Nader.  Back before Jesse was doing the drop-kick off
the ropes, Ralph was taking on corporations and taking
unsafe cars off the road.

Read his ideas and prospective polices! (Remember
ideas?!?) If you don't agree with them, don't vote for him.

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