How is Nader polling vs. Kerry and Bush?

[ochazuke]

Has anyone seen a poll which poses a general election choice as a three-way?

[papau]

1. too early - DNC/DLC dump on Nader plus last pull out of Iraq and WTO

candidate standing may pull a few votes his way in key states.

right mow I doubt he pulls 2% nationwide

plus he will not be on all state ballots.

The Question is will the Dean vote accept 4 more years of Bush in order to show that they are anti-war and anti-WTO/NAFTA - Nader will try to sell the votes where Edwards/Kerry did not dump on Bush and gave him room via their votes to eventually screw us as proof that the parties are the same

most Dean folks are too aware of how different our world is with Bush compared to how it would have been with Gore to buy that sale -

but some folks will buy it - and DNC/DLC dumping on Nader will help make sale.

should be interesting to watch.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Just a guess, but...

I suspect yer average Deaniac, or anyone else, who votes for Nader probably wouldn't vote for anyone else anyway, so it's no great loss.

I knew a lot of Perot and Nader voters who found the voting booth for the first time because of those two. Most of them couldn't actually define any issues that they were interested in, but were fascinated by the idea of someone "different."

No matter how you want to look at it, there will always be a small number of people who are more into the cult of personality than the actual governance of the country.

[carpetbagger]

2. I saw 4% in a poll last week.

Somehow I doubt he'll pull anything like that.

BTW, the poll (which was a national poll from one of the media whores) called him the Green Party candidate.

[ButterflyBlood]

4. it doesn't matter

third party candidates usually poll below the margin of error, so polls for them are meaningless. in 2000 every poll showed Nader getting at least 3%

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. and he got 2.7%

which rounds up to 3. ANd there were supposedly more who would have voted for him were Bush/Gore not so close.

[ButterflyBlood]

6. but a truly accurate poll would've shown some lower as well

plus one had him at 7. if the margin of error is larger than the total, i don't see how the statistic can mean much at all.