With all of your expertise, can you say why most polls show Nader hurting President Bush? And why would you be cheering for that?
I'm not the poster that you addressed, but I haven't seen any polls which show Nader hurting President Bush. Can you please provide links and details?
I'm not sure that's the case. The Nader platform is not appealing to a conservative, and last election Nader voters hurt Gore, not Bush. Why would that change now?
Threepwood is a Canadian.
I have a theory to explain the "Bush Naderites".
The Kerry campaign is openly hostile to the Naderites. They have been suing them left and right. Their basic premise is "you cost Al Gore the election - you are all scum and must be destroyed".
Is it possible that that is not an appealing message to the Naderites? It's like getting a horse head in your bed with a note attached: "Vote Kerry Or Else".
Everyone's assuming that the Naderites will break for Kerry because the Naderites in 2000 broke for Gore. But Gore WAS an environmenalist wacko. Kerry is just an empty suit.
Here in Arizona, the Naderites collected tens of thousands of signatures to get Ralph Nader on the ballot (mine included). These signatures were thrown out, not because they were invalid but because of questions about some of the people who gathered the signatures.
If I were a Naderite, I would be mad as hell about this. Tens of thousands of people said "put this man on the ballot" and handful of hack lawyers found an unelected judge to thwart the Will Of The People.
If I were a Naderite, I would vote for Bush as my protest against John Kerry and the heavy-handed tactics of the DNC.