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1. Ted writes:

   Bloomberg must really piss you off then. Except maybe for the fact that he is currently projected to draw more from Republicans than Dems…

   Comment 6/21/2007

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2. tgirsch writes:

   Bloomberg pisses me off even if he has no national political aspirations, and for reasons having nothing to do with party affiliation.

   Comment 6/21/2007

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3. Dan M. writes:

   There’s an easy solution to Nader: ignore him for the fossil he is and move on.

   Comment 6/22/2007

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4. LarryE writes:

   A Nader run? I think if he does run he’ll have even less impact on the outcome than he did in 2004, when he had none: In not a single state carried by Bush did Nader’s vote exceed the margin between Bush and Kerry. If every Nader vote had gone to Kerry instead, Bush still would have won. (Which, by the way, I predicted.)

   Upside of a run: There’ll be a few interviews, a few articles, touching on issues that will otherwise not get raised.

   Downside: People will spend more time in spittle-flecked vituperation of him than in appealing to his supporters or addressing issues he raises, to the detriment of progressive change - as, again, I accurately predicted would happen in 2004 (which is why at the time I wrote to him saying he should not run).

   And just to try one last time to clarify something, I never said you must not vote for the lesser of two evils (indeed, I said that if I had not lived in a safe state, I would have voted for Kerry). I said rather that refusing to vote for a 3rd party except when doing so was certain to make no difference, i.e., could safely be ignored and therefore involved no expression of political power, will result in our continuing to be faced with lesser-of-two-evils choices.

   Comment 6/23/2007

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