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Andrea Dorey wrote:<br>
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There are 2 ways to view this. The Nader Team put the best spin that
the can on it However, I have a feeling that these comments by Tom
Tomorrow at This Modern World are accurate. <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Nader’s critique of corporate power and its
corrosive effect on
American democracy is spot-on. But if the point of these third-party
runs is to inject that critique into mainstream discourse — well, we’re
way past the point of diminishing returns, and actually deep into some
sort of anti-matter universe, in which information is literally sucked <i>out</i>
of people’s brains at the first mention of his name. In the way that
Dan Rather’s report on George Bush going AWOL turned into a discussion
about Dan Rather, the only debate another Nader candidacy is going to
inspire is a debate about Nader himself, and I just don’t see the point.</blockquote>
It is clearly evident that the print media is not paying much attention
to what he is saying and doing. I could have written most of their
stories before the announcement, they only had to get the right quotes
from his talk because they had already made up their minds what the
"story" would be before it happened. <br>
<br>
In fact, the release from the Nader Team just underscores that the
media assumption was the correct characterization. <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:3ABF07B3-C5F1-4A69-B5E7-5C2A6E1EF6CC@cagreens.org"
type="cite"><font
style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"
color="#666666" face="Helvetica" size="4">Major media outlets
throughout the world ran headlines about Ralph’s historic <b>challenge
to the corporations that dominate our society.</b></font></blockquote>
As long as this is the sole basis for his candidacy, then the
prognostication of so-called pundits like ABC's George Stephanopoulos,
who characterized the day of announcement as the high point of Nader's
campaign, will become the reality. <br>
<br>
Republican pollster Frank Luntz subtitled his most recent book. "<b>It's
not what you say, it's what people hear.</b>" This is not a message
that the American Public will hear in this election cycle. A Green
Party candidate, or an Independent candidate running with this as their
primary message, will not do well. Nader opened his comments on Meet
the Press with the Health Care issue, arguing for Single Payer. Not a
word was heard. A different story had already been written in
everyone's minds. <br>
<br>
If Nader is going to be successful, he has to find a way change the
dynamics of the debate. It is rather like Clinton trying to deal with
Obama. If she just goes along, Obama can just move along. If she goes
really negative, then it makes her look bad and it legitimizes his
stature as front runner. The situation is out of her control because
Obama is a phenomenon <br>
<br>
The same is true in Nader's campaign. The situation is out of Nader's
control, or at least has been so far. <br>
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