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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I was talking to someone close to Ron Klain a few months ago, and we got to talking about the election. He pointed out that Buchanan made sure to do his campaigning only in states where he couldn't affect the outcome, but that Nader -- while saying that his goal was to get the Greens to 5% -- did the opposite, and did not campaign in places like Austin, where he could have pulled in votes without making a difference in the electoral tally, but instead campaigned in places where he could hurt Gore, like Seattle.
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That makes sense. If you are truly a radical who wants to change the system (as Nader claims to be) -- you want to damage the more "mainstream" party on your ideological side in order to cripple it, to ensure the victory of the "other side", and to use the ensuing anger/frustration/helplessness of the people on your side to mobilize support for more radical change when they believe that there is no palatable effective mainstream alternative.
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