Nader Fails to Make California Ballot

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080804X.shtml

Nader Fails to Make California Ballot
By Kevin Yamamura
Sacramento Bee Capitol Bureau

Saturday 07 August 2004

Famed third-party candidate Ralph Nader has failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the California ballot as an independent after ditching his Green Party label of four years ago.

Nader had submitted slightly more than half of the 153,805 signatures required two hours before Friday's deadline, according to the secretary of state's office.

"We were not there, the last I heard," confirmed Peter Camejo, Nader's running mate and a two-time gubernatorial candidate who lives in Folsom.

[JohnKleeb]

1. good to hear

thanks.

[Fenris]

2. Oh that's a shame.

:eyes:

[KC21304]

3. Keep the good news coming. Thanks Will. nt

[AmerDem]

4. fanfuckingtastic!

:bounce: :kick: :bounce: :kick: :bounce: :kick:

[amber dog democrat]

5. Thank you God!

Now if he can only be kept out of a few more. I think its sad to think of him relegated to the status of a Lyndon Larouche or worse... but Lyndon Larouche was not shamlessly syphoning off votes from the Democrats in close elections.
Actually Nader is worse.

[meti57b]

6. it's good news and bad news. Good news: he didn't make the ballot.....

Bad news: he's spending all his money on swing states and not wasting money on anyplace like CA, where Kerry now has an 11pt lead in the polls.

[Poiuyt]

7. Has Nader made it on the ballot of any swing states?

[WilliamPitt]

8. Not Oregon

[mdguss]

9. If Nader:

Can't get on enough states to garner 270 electoral votes, then it becomes obvious that he is a closet conservative and a tool of the Bush administration and Karl Rove if he stays in the race.

[George_Bonanza]

10. One of the more liberal states and he fails

Doesn't bode well for his chances in more moderate states, does it?

[flaminbats]

11. clearly liberals have only one viable choice in 2004...

"California is a place where Nader should be able to mine some support," said Walter Stone, chairman of the University of California, Davis, political science department and an expert on third parties. "If he can't get on the ballot here, that's an indicator that his campaign is faltering compared to where it was four years ago.

"I think it will be harder for him to sustain an image that he's a serious and viable player if he can't get on the ballot in California."