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Newsweek Reprint
November 29, 2000
My Fellow American,
What interesting Presidential times we live in...
No clear mandate, heavily financed campaigns, vote fraud, corruption, and lawsuits.
The results of the elections affirm to us all that neither Bush or Gore is a
compelling choice.
A choice between "Evil" and "Lesser Evil" is all the two
party system can offer us.
Voting for Independent candidates will make a difference for America.
To hear about Ralph Nader and the Green Party,
please visit http://homepage.mac.com/naderforpresident
Below is a Newsweek Magazine reprint about how much money Bush raised and how
Ralph Nader may have cost Gore the election.
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November 20, 2000 Newsweek
Bush's Treasure Chest:
That did not stop him from dialing for dollars with a certain disarming bluntness.
" Hey, Wody!" went a message to an old Yale buddy. "It's Geo.
Where's my money?"
In fact, Bush assembled the greatest fund-raising machine in the history of
politics. Before he formally annouonced in June 1999, he has $15 million in
the kitty; by Election Day, his campaign and the Republican National Committee
would raise $350 million between them, shattering all records.GREEN MAN: Nader
and his zealots bedeviled the Gore strategists.
Big labor was suppossed to be the Democrats' big GOTV gun. But Gore's support
of free trade had not endeared him to assembly-line workers, who feared that
cheap labor abroad would cost jobs at home and drive down wages. A significant
number of angry workers were joining mad-as-hell protesters of all stripes to
back the stubborn candidacy of Ralph Nader.
The Gore staff made no attempt to hide their anger at the long-time consumer
advocate and the King of Greens. "Nader could cost us the election. Period.
End of Story". said a top Gore aide. "He gets it, too. I think he
wants to do it. He's on one of the greatest ego trips of modern times."
Making a direct appeal to Nader to drop out of the race was more than useless,
the Gore team figured. Back channel envoys were sure to be gleefully exposed
by the left wing polemicist, who seemed to be enjoying his moment to noteriety.
There was not much point in telling Nader's ardent army of followers - 5 percent
of the voters in most pre-election polls - that they were wasting their vote.
The Gore campaign hoped that about half of Nader's supporters, old-line Democratic
liberals dissatisfied with the centrist drift of the party, would come home
at the end. Ads mocking Bush's environmental record in Texas were aimed partly
at them. But fully half of Nader's supporters seemed determined to cast a protest
vote-and damn the consequences. The cost, the Gore team reckoned, could be grave:
the margin of victory in a half-dozen states from the Pacific
Northwest to Maine.
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