A Final Plea to Nader SupportersOctober 30, 2004 If Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, and Ralph Nader's former running mate Winona LaDuke haven't convinced you that voting for Nader is too great a risk this election, maybe nothing will. But the stakes are high enough to try. As Nader supporters continually point out, Kerry is a compromised, centrist Democrat, ambivalent at best on a host of key questions including the Iraqi war. Nader's positions may be better, and it may feel personally gratifying to vote for them. But this election isn't about abstract stands. It's about...