ENG - Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and independent candidate for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008 as well as a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000, with his role in the 2000 election in particular being subject to much debate. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Nader is both the first Arab American and Lebanese American presidential candidate in the U.S.
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October 2008
AC: In 2000,you drew nearly 10,000 people to a speech in Portland, Oregon. This year you got barely 2,000 in in the whole of Multnomah County where Portland lies, perhaps the most progressive county in the nation. Is this a sign of the withering of the progressive ggleft or the dead end of independent political campaigns?Nader: It’s a sign of the swoon in the voting booth by people who told pollsters that they were going to vote for me at a level of 4 to 7 million; that is, 6 per cent nationally in the summer and 3 per cent the day before the election, according to CNN. In Washington DC ...
123 - in poll Ralph Nader Not since the 1960s, when seat belts became standard equipment in cars, has the atmosphere been so favorable for consumer-friendly reform. After decades of hands-off capitalism and shrinking consumer protection agencies, the Wall Street meltdown has unmistakably changed the nation's attitude toward regulation. And Americans have just elected a president who has promised to reform the credit card industry, bankruptcy law, and toy safety, to name a few. So you’d think that Ralph Nader, the father of the modern consumer movement in America, would be happy.You'd be wrong.Nader is worried ...
"If they don't close these (nuclear) reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years." - said Ralph Nader in 1977.
