Ralph Nader has been a candidate for the office of President of the United States five times. In 1992, Nader was a write-in candidate in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996, he accepted a draft by the Green Party, and ran a very low-budget campaign. In 2000, he competed aggressively as the Green Party candidate. In 2004, he ran less successfully, as an independent. On February 24, 2008, he declared himself a candidate for 2008.
Nader received the ...
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Ralph Nader has been a candidate for the office of President of the United States five times. In 1992, Nader was a write-in candidate in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996, he accepted a draft by the Green Party, and ran a very low-budget campaign. In 2000, he competed aggressively as the Green Party candidate. In 2004, he ran less successfully, as an independent. On February 24, 2008, he declared himself a candidate for 2008.
Nader received the largest number of votes (2,882,955 [2.74%]) of his four presidential campaigns in the hotly contested and controversial 2000 election.
Ralph Nader's name appeared in the press as a potential candidate for president for the first time in 1971, when he was offered the opportunity to run as the presidential candidate for the New Party, a progressive split-off from the Democratic Party in 1972. Chief among his advocates was author Gore Vidal, who touted a 1972 Nader presidential campaign in a front-page article in Esquire magazine in 1971. Nader...
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