CNN Poll Has Nader With 6 Percent

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For discussion;

I want all to know that when I say I don’t like McCain I mean I don’t like McCain. It seems that most of my “debates” (to me at least) are about specific topics like the Bush lied bs and the like. But that is not the point of this post.

While I would most likely never vote for Nader I may, for the first time, not vote for either major party candidate.

So, all, help me here. I know Barr is running (I don’t know much if anything about him) and Nader and if enough votes in this country could bring a 3rd party candidate in to office, would it be beneficial? I mean, I think even if a quite radical one , like Nader came to office, while he would most likely never get most of his agenda put into place, would just the fact that major parties got spanked start a change?

Anyway, the following got me to thinking about this yet again




CNN Poll Has Nader With 6 Percent

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 5:48 PM

By: Rick Pedraza Article Font Size




Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader received 6 percent of the vote in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Wednesday, bringing him closer to his goal of participating in the upcoming presidential debates.

The CNN/ORC poll of registered voters shows Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in a statistical dead heat at 46 percent and 43 percent respectively, while Independent Party candidate Bob Barr received 3 percent of the vote.

Nader’s camp, who complains he isn’t given the same chance to promote his candidacy’s objectives as the other two major party’s presidential nominees, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says he needs to poll nationally at about 10 percent to gain entry into the upcoming town hall debates, as well as the Google-sponsored internet debate set for Sept. 18 in New Orleans.

Staffers working on behalf of Nader’s fifth run at the White House are convinced the perennial candidate could poll as high as 20 percent if allowed to take part in the debates.

The Nader-Matt Gonzalez independent ticket plans to finish petitioning in at least 45 of the 50 states prior to the Sept. 18 debate.

Campaign operatives working for the billionaire candidate and his running mate, Matt Gonzales — a politician, lawyer, and activist prominent in San Francisco politics — feel anything can happen once a three-way race between Obama, McCain and their candidate is established.

At a news conference and campaign rally to be held Thursday in Hawaii, Nader will outline his party platform, which includes:


A comprehensive, negotiated military and corporate withdrawal date from Iraq;


A single-payer, Canadian-style, private delivery, free-choice public health insurance system for all;


A living wage and repeal of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act;


A no-nuke, solar-based energy policy supported by renewable, sustainable, energy-efficient sources;


A carbon tax to deter global warming;


An end to the corporate welfare and corporate crime; and


A more direct democracy that emphasizes people over corporations.




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A single-payer, Canadian-style, private delivery, free-choice public health insurance system for all;

That ought to be a non-starter. Just as a fully private system as in the US is not an option for us up north, a full swing the other way is not the answer either.

Note for clarity: There is no such thing as a single-payer, Canadian style, private delivery,....system.