Kery's warning: Nader's a spoilsport
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Kerry's warning: Nader's a spoilsport
By Noelle Straub
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Democrat John F. Kerry [related, bio] yesterday admitted he won't be able to push independent firebrand Ralph Nader out of the presidential race but warned voters that backing Nader will just mean four more years of President Bush [related, bio].
Kerry, in network television interviews conducted in Boston, picked up Democractic criticism of Nader as spoiler.
Asked if he thought Nader would bow out, the Bay State senator simply said, ``No.''
But Kerry cautioned people not to ``waste their vote'' with Nader, because ``a vote for Ralph Nader will be a vote for George Bush.''
The comments are among the most critical yet by Kerry of Nader. The Democrat has mostly treated Nader with kid gloves, failing to join broad Democratic criticism and even meeting with Nader in Washington recently.
The comments come as yet another new national poll showed Nader continuing to hold a small but critical bloc of votes. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll showed Kerry at 46 percent, Bush at 44 percent and Nader at 3 percent.
Democrats, pointing to Republican efforts to help finance Nader's campaign and get on the ballot in some states, said those voters are more likely to go Kerry than Bush. |
