Ralph Nader Campaigning in Hawaii
July 3, 2008 3:43 pm Hawaii Politics
Popular independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader is speaking at the University of Hawaii at Manoa today (3 July) and pushing some of his policy ideas. What is ironic is he is speaking at the same university that Barack Obama’s parents met!
Nader will hold a news conference at 7:30 PM at the University of Hawaii Art Building auditorium then host the rally at 8 PM. Tickets at $10 or $5 for univeristy students.
Just in case you didn’t know, Ralph Nader was the man that took just enough votes from Al Gore to elect President Bush in 2000. Currently, he is getting about 6% of the vote in a Barack Obama/John McCain match up and could play spolier to Obama!
anonymous Hawaii nader supporter :
Date: July 13, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
I attended this at UH, and I am glad I did. I would recommend people check out Mr nader’s campaign if they haven’t allready. He raises some important points that the corporate candidates don’t talk about.
that last paragraph kind of bothers me. didn’t president Bush “take” more of Mr Gore’s votes than Nader did? shouldn’t you say Bush was the spoiler? Wasn’t the ‘00 florida election riddled with scandal anyway? didn’t Gore win the popular vote? Nader didn’t “spoil” anything, he did not take anybody elses votes.
IMHO, we should have more than 2 options, I believe Ralph Nader is a fine option to choose, Be you in a swing state or not. People vote for Nader because they think he is a better choice, he does not “steal” or “take” votes. every voter gets to make a choice, no political candidate has any claim to your vote until you cast it.
admin :
Date: July 13, 2008 @ 8:16 pm
Honestly, people who fail to understand the constitution and our system bring up the popular vote. The popular vote means absolutely nothing as we are 50 states voting for president using the electoral system. Only those that fail to understand this state Bush stole the election.
A two party system is how we elect Presidents and the third party candidates simply take votes away from one of the two main parties. Nadar took just enough away from Gore to elect President Bush like Perot took votes from Bush Sr to elect Bill Clinton. While I would love more choice, third party candidates have never been elected to office and never will. They simply take votes from the main two guys. That’s fact and not opinion.