Recently Third Party Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Ralph Nader reached his goal of appear­ing on the bal­lot in 45 states this Novem­ber. Nader appeared on the bal­lot in 43 states in the 2000 elec­tion and man­aged to cap­ture 3 % of the vote offi­cially giv­ing the elec­tion to George W. Bush. The Nader Gon­za­lez ticket could have a sig­nif­i­cant impact on swing states and yet again give the White House to a Republican.

These sim­ple facts are very obvi­ous to most Amer­i­cans who are at all acquainted with the Elec­toral Col­lege. How­ever, these facts do not seem appar­ent to the Nader camp. By suc­ceed­ing in get­ting his name on the bal­lot in 45 states, includ­ing key swing states, Ralph Nader is in fact mak­ing it less likely that the changes he hopes to make in gov­ern­ment will occur in the next pres­i­den­tial admin­is­tra­tion. On almost every issue the Obama cam­paign and the Nader cam­paign want very sim­i­lar things and both are polar oppo­sites of the John McCain GOP stance.

Instead of run­ning as a Third Party can­di­date Ralph Nader should be out on the cam­paign trail telling peo­ple who agree with him on the issues to vote Obama. By vot­ing for Nader Inde­pen­dents are help­ing John McCain win the elec­tion and give the Repub­li­cans a third straight term. Ralph Nader is screw­ing Amer­ica a sec­ond time around. The only dif­fer­ence between the 2000 elec­tion and the 2008 elec­tion is after eight years of George W. Bush she might not be able to take it this time.

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