Ralph Nader 2000 presidential campaign

Ralph Nader for President 2000
CampaignU.S. presidential election, 2000
CandidateRalph Nader
Founder of Public Citizen and
progressive activist
Winona LaDuke
Political activist
AffiliationGreen candidate
StatusLost election
HeadquartersWashington, DC
Website
www.votenader.org
(archived – May 12, 2000)
Nader giving a campaign speech in Austin, Texas
Nader speaks out against the presidential debates at Washington University in St. Louis from which he was excluded on October 17, 2000.

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.[1] 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[2] and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina.[3] 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 received 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 new states such as Delaware and Maryland.[4]

Some analysts believe that had Nader and the Green Party not participated as a third-party in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Al Gore would have won.[5][6][7] Even Nader's post-election analysis seems to confirm this theory.[8] However, when asked about this, Nader pointed to other factors and other ways Gore could have won,[9] as did his ally, Jim Hightower.[10]

  1. ^ "Nader 2000 – Ralph Nader Candidacy Announcement Speech". August 15, 2000. Archived from the original on August 15, 2000. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "Ballot Access News – August 1, 2000". Archived from the original on October 22, 2002. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  3. ^ "Ballot Access News – September 1, 2000". Archived from the original on August 20, 2002. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Levine, Harry G. (May 2004).
  5. ^ Roberts, Joel (July 27, 2004). "Nader to crash Dems' party?". CBS News.
  6. ^ Burden, Barry C. (2001). Did Ralph Nader elect George W. Bush? An analysis of minor parties in the 2000 presidential election (PDF). Weidenbaum Center. OCLC 835861643. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 12, 2005. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30 – September 2, 2001.)
  7. ^ Herron, Michael C.; Lewis, Jeffrey B. (April 24, 2006). "Did Ralph Nader spoil Al Gore's Presidential bid? A ballot-level study of Green and Reform Party voters in the 2000 Presidential election". Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2 (3). Now Publishing Inc.: 205–226. doi:10.1561/100.00005039. Pdf.
  8. ^ "Dear Conservatives Upset With the Policies of the Bush Administration -- Ralph's Writings - Nader for President 2004 - www.votenader.org". July 2, 2004. Archived from the original on July 2, 2004. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  9. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (May 31, 2008). "Interview: Ralph Nader". Wall Street Journal.
  10. ^ Hightower, Jim (November 28, 2000). "How Florida Democrats torpedoed Gore". Salon. Retrieved September 25, 2019.