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Battle of the Hawks
The Democratic Race Will Continue...
Will Pennsylvania Matter At All?...
If You Were Opposed to this War Before It Started, the Choice is Clear--Barack Obama Got It Right!
Edwards, the Obama Movement & the Fight for a Progressive Congress
Current Endorsed Candidate Campaigns
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Butcher, Vickie (Congress, CA-52)Other Races of Interest
Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option
Obama Is Right
Mary Pallant Receives Ventura County Chapter Endorsement
Barack the Vote In the Remaining States
Clinton Has What It Takes
Armitage Wins Endorsement of Greater Daytona PDA Chapter
Clinton's Cringe-Worthy Moment
Give Dennis Kucinich His Due
A Personal Note from Dennis Kucinich
John Edwards Suspends Campaign
US Corporate Elite Fear Candidate Edwards
Kucinich: For the Record
Obama Thanks Kucinich for Encouraging His Backers to Make Obama Their Second Choice
Take a look at Joe Biden--There's a lot in him for Progressives
PDA Energy for Kucinich for New Hampshire!
PDA Members for Edwards take aim at Iowa
Ralph Nader supports Edwards' anti-corporate message
Edwards Delivers Speech On Lifting Up America's Middle Class
Kucinich Hits Homerun in Jefferson's Hometown
PDA - The Freedom to Choose
PDA Rocks!
Bill Richardson
Why I'm supporting John Edwards: It's time for a Progressive President with Coat Tails
Why Should PDA Support Dennis Kucinich?
Signs of Desperation?
Edwards: Senator Clinton Must Take a Stand on Peru Trade Deal
Kucinich Will Introduce Privileged Resolution To Force Vote On Impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney TODAY
Kucinich's Challenge
Will Democrats Follow John Edwards On Trade--And Win Elections?
John Edwards: Sick of Bush's Rank Hypocrisy
Why is John Edwards leading in Iowa?
"To Build One America, End the Game"
Saving the Middle Class: A Real-Not Rhetorical-Plan
'Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win'
John Edwards and "You"
As if our lives depend on it…
Why Progressives Should Support John Edwards for President
Edwards is the only progressive candidate who can win the presidency
Introducing Dennis Kucinich
Edwards will give Kucinich a fight for the progressive vote
Dennis Kucinich represents the Heart & Soul of PDA
What Makes Laura Bonham Run: PDA Staff Member Runs for Utah State Legislature
Clint Curtis is changing the tide in Florida
PDA Welcomes Sen. Feingold to Maryland
Rep. Conyers Endorses PDA National Board Member John Bonifaz for Massachusetts Secretary of State
John Bonifaz for Secretary of State (MA)
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Perennial third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader was asked byHardball's Chris Matthews on Monday, "Is there anybody in this campaign you like the looks of that can win, so that you wouldn't have to run?"
"I do like Kucinich. But the frontrunners -- Edwards now has the most progressive message across a broad spectrum ... of any leading candidate I've seen in years," Nader replied. "The key phrase is when he says he doesn't want to replace a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrat. ... He raises the issue of the concentration of power and wealth in a few hands that are working against the interests of the vast majority of the American people."
"What's the alternative to corporate power?" Matthews asked.
"Sovereignty of the people," responded Nader. "It's people taking back their government ... cleaning up campaign corruption ... empowering workers ... controlling Congress."
Matthews asked Nader, "Why did the corporations win all the big fights?" and said that what concerns him even more than corporate power is the prospect of a company like Chrysler being sold to a private equity firm, which has no accountability even to shareholders. "Won't we wish we had the corporations back again?" he asked. Nader agreed, but had no answers to suggest.
Matthews then raised the charge that Nader cost Gore the 2000 election by taking 1.63% of the votes in Florida and that he'd violated a promise not to run in any contested states. Nader replied that he'd always said he would run in all 50 states and insisted that "Gore won in Florida."
Nader also argued that his own candidacy helped Gore overall. "By pushing Gore to take more progressive policies, unlike what Lieberman wanted to do, social scientists concluded that the Green campaign got more votes for Gore," Nader stated. "Every time he went out after the oil, drug, insurance companies, his polls went up."
"A lot of people think that pulled him away from the center," Matthews commented.
"It's a false assessment," Nader replied, suggesting that rather than trying to preserve their monopoly over progressive voters, the Democratic Party should have stolen his 2000 platform.
"Wouldn't the old Democrats have taken it away and gotten more votes?" he asked. "Living wage, full universal health care, restructuring of the tax system, giving more voice to ordinary folks. They didn't. That's the reason they lost."
Nader concluded by emphasizing that he could not endorse Obama because "he doesn't have the agenda" but that "if Edwards wins ... and he doesn't back off" he might support him.
"One of my heroes, Ralph Nader," concluded Matthews.
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