Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (51145)	10/23/2000 10:02:01 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

AS, FYI...Ad: 'A Vote for Nader Is Not a Vote for Bush' By Michael Carney Oct 23 5:04pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid Democratic concerns that Green Party nominee Ralph Nader is siphoning liberal votes from Al Gore in toss-up states, a New York businessman announced plans on Monday to bolster the consumer advocate in states where either major party candidate has a solid lead. Greg MacArthur, a documentary film producer, said in an interview he will spend $322,000 on full-page newspaper ads encouraging voters to back Nader in all but a few states rated a toss-up between Democratic Vice President Gore and Republican Gov. George W. Bush of Texas. Nader has himself acknowledged that he has little chance of winning the presidency, but if the Greens should win more than 5 percent of the popular vote, the party would be eligible for a potential $7 million federal subsidy in 2004. ``The ad is going to run in states where it is highly unlikely that Bush or Gore would lose that state,'' said MacArthur. ``Bush is going to take Texas, Gore is going to take Massachusetts.'' Aimed at Democrats and independents, MacArthur's ad campaign notes that it would be ``unsafe to vote for Nader'' in nine swing states: Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon and Washington. Polling at 5 percent or more in polls of voters in many of these swing states, Nader has continued to hurt Gore by drawing support from his traditional base of liberal voters, especially in the Northwest. ``In this election, an unsafe vote is one cast in the direction of the two corporate parties, which are going to continue to ignore the real needs of Americans,'' Nader spokeswoman Laura Jones said. She said the campaign was unaware of MacArthur's activities. GREENS COULD GAIN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ``My goal is to get Nader 5 percent,'' said MacArthur, grandson of John D. MacArthur, the late insurance magnate. ``I would like to see the Green Party develop into a real political organization.'' The former journalist described a plan of action heavy on civics and political intrigue. ``The ad is basically addressed to people who simply don't seem to understand the Electoral College,'' MacArthur said. The margin of victory is meaningless under that system, which awards electoral votes to the candidate who has won the popular vote within each state. ``Friends said they would vote for Nader, but they were so frightened by Bush that they would vote for Gore,'' MacArthur said of fellow liberals in New York, where Gore held a 29-point lead last week among likely voters in at least one poll. ``The irony is that you live in a state where your vote is essentially meaningless, yet that very fact makes a vote for Nader meaningful,'' said MacArthur. The ad will run in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, as well as papers in Boston, San Francisco, Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado.