[lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?)

[Doug Henwood]

And what about Kucinich? He was in all the Dem debates, and got a 
chance to air his views. Why couldn't he get more than 1-2% of the 
primary vote - the Democratic primary, where voters are to the left 
of the general election? It's easy to blame money or the media, but 
the problem is more complex than that.

Doug

Liza Featherstone wrote:


>Isn't it mostly because more people share Perot's politics than Nader's? I
>mean for all the complex reasons leftists don't win elections yet, there's
>really no getting around the fact that a lot of people don't agree with us.
>
>Liza
>
>>  From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>>  Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>>  Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:28:25 -0400
>>  To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?)
>>
>>>  Really. Ralph is hardly an unknown - he's got one of the more
>>>  recognizable names in American public life. He's been around almost
>>>  40 years - Unsafe At Any Speed was published in 1965. People know
>>>  what he stands for pretty well. Why is it that many millions more
>>>  were willing to "throw their votes away" on the jug-eared Texan than
>>>  the hair-shirt Nutmegger?
>>>
>>>  Doug
>>
>>  Because there are more jug-eared Texan-types than hair-shirt Nutmeggers?
>>
>>  DP
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