Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000
| Ralph Nader for President 2000 | |
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2000 |
| Candidate |
Ralph Nader Founder of Public Citizen and progressive activist Winona LaDuke Political activist |
| Affiliation | Green candidate |
| Status | Lost election |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| Key people |
Winona LaDuke (Running mate) |
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www.votenader.org (archived - May 12, 2000) |
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 Booknotes interview with Nader on Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President, February 3, 2002, C-SPAN
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The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney, began on February 21, 2000. He cited "a crisis of democracy" as motivation to run. He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was also nominated by the Vermont Progressive Party and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina. The campaign marked Nader's second presidential bid as the Green nominee, and his third overall, having run as a write-in campaign in 1992 and a passive campaign on the Green ballot line in 1996.
Nader's vice presidential running mate was Winona LaDuke, an environmental activist and member of the Ojibwe tribe of Minnesota.
Nader appeared on the ballot in 43 states and DC, up from 22 in 1996. He won 2,882,955 votes, or 2.74 percent of the popular vote. His campaign did not attain the 5 percent required to qualify the Green Party for federally distributed public funding in the next election. The percentage did, however, enable the Green Party to achieve ballot status in many new states, such as Delaware and Maryland.
Some analysis stated that Nader acted as a third-party spoiler in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, while some statistics showed that the numbers of Democrats who voted Republican outweighed those who voted Green, and Nader himself disputed the claim of being a spoiler.
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