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however.. his effort here does not address why we have millions of eligible voters who don't show up on election day...
and for me, I'm not interested in doing the job of the DNC and the democratic party for them. THEY need to motivate people to vote. if they can't figure out just how to do that-- then that's obv another problem that needs to be addressed.
since the DNC and democratic party in general appears to behave exactly like a giant corporation... i.e. the alleged need to raise and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on mostly negative campaigning (EU nation politicians prolly spend 1/500 of what is spent here-- and seem to do fine).
when Nader ran in 2000, the DNC attempted to block him (illegally) from getting on the ballot of several states-- in spite of the fact Nader had all of the req'd signatures needed. Nader had to sue (he won) to get on those state ballots... and the DNC wasted money on lawyers.. just like a big corporation does.
sorry, huge disconnect here between what you think is going on and what is actually going on.
indicates Nader was in fact a success. if he were truly were a huge failure, we wouldn't be talking about him now.
Noted you obv don't want to talk about the rather horrible campaign skills/strategy of Al Gore-- which had he known what he was doing, he would have thrown a bone or two to the left-- thus appeasing them, getting their votes, and not allowing those very same voters to support Nader, which caused Gore to lose states-- like his own home state of Tennessee.
Gore's "strategy" was arrogant and dumb, and that's mainly why he lost.
