Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote
George W. Bush Richard Cheney Republican 50,460,110 47.87% 271 50.37%
Albert Gore Jr. Joseph Lieberman Democratic 51,003,926 48.38% 266 49.44%
Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke Green 2,883,105 2.73% 0 0.00%
Patrick Buchanan Ezola Foster Reform 449,225 0.43% 0 0.00%
Harry Browne Art Olivier Libertarian 384,516 0.36% 0 0.00%
Other (+) - - 236,376 0.22% 1 0.19%
and one of the main reasons they recieve such low vote counts is becasue a vast majority of the voters dont get a chance to hear thier views because they are cut off from access to the amrica people through the nationally televised debates by the media and the two wings of the republicratic party.Most voters dont get a chanceto know that there is a second political party they can choose from such as libertarians or greens or constitution party so they just tune out and dont bother showing up for election day or they hold thier noses and vote for the one person of the single republicrat party that more closly matches some off thier views.If george w bush was really the lord and savior of america that most members of freerepublic seem to think he is he would have demanded that the other partys be allowed in the debates out of a basic sence of fairness to the american people and to the democratic republic that the president is suppose to support and protect.
The 4 party debate (of minor party VP candidates)does raise the question: "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, does it make a sound?"
These parties would do well to really support their LOCAL and STATE level candidates and work for their causes on a gradual, step-by-step basis, just as the NRA has done for years. The NRA has done a tremendous job without ever running a candidate for president.
I personally ran as a Libertarian Candidate for Ohio State Representative in 2000 (and even I could not bring myself for the Libertarian Extremist presidential candidate, Harry Brown. I went to see him and listened to his positions and then I proudly VOTED FOR GEORGE W. BUSH.
I still have a great difficulty voting for the RINO's like Senator DeWine and Senator Voinovich, or Governor Bob Taft, but I will PROUDLY VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK Cheney. These Guys are GOOD!
RamS ([: ^ )