The painful slide in the stock price of Cisco Systems is now big enough news to even rile up consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
As frightening as Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis is, worrying about the possibility of an earthquake-related nuclear disaster in the United States should not be our only concern.
You know something strange is going on when Ralph Nader calls me to complain that General Motors shareholders are being treated unfairly by the federal government.
What started out as a season of unusual opportunity for third-party candidates is coming to a dispiriting close
updated: Thu Jun 26 2008 02:09:00
Independent presidental candidate Ralph Nader makes racially charged comments towards Sen. Barack Obama.
Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy has received little media attention, but his latest critique of Sen. Barack Obama has come under fire for its seemingly racial overtones.
The activist bristles at being called a spoiler and says he is running to make it easier for future small candidates. And, yes, he tells TIME, he's the one to bring about change
Ralph Nader lashed out at the Democratic presidential candidates Monday after they said he could hurt their chances of taking back the White House.
updated: Tue Feb 26 2008 03:52:00
CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews consumer advocate Ralph Nader about why he is making another run for the presidency.
Ralph Nader is entering the presidential race as an independent, he announced Sunday, saying it is time for a "Jeffersonian revolution."
We're running three hours earlier here in this desert town, and our hotel doesn't seem to believe in caffeinated coffee, soundproof walls or high-speed Internet access. Which is all just another way of saying that if you find a typo in today's Grind, look deep into your heart and forgive.
It's way early, but our educated gut tells us the zingers emerging from the Melee in Miami on Thursday will sound something like this:
President Bush's lead in the polls may be shrinking, but another obstacle to John Kerry's chances of winning the White House is not: Ralph Nader.
President Bush has opened a slight lead over Sen. John Kerry in the pivotal battleground state of Florida, but the race still remains within the margin of error 40 days before the election, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday.
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Presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be included on the Nov. 2 ballot in Florida on the Reform Party line, after the state's highest court turned back a Democratic effort to get him tossed from the ballot.
We're going to keep it short this morning, even shorter than usual, so you'll have time to read our new analysis of the all-important Electoral Map (below), which now shows front-runner George W. Bush threatening John Kerry's lock on his native New England.
President Bush stares down the controversy over his military service today with a speech before the National Guard in Las Vegas, Nevada. Back east, Porter Goss, the president's pick for CIA director, stares down tough questioning about the 9/11 commission report in his first day of Senate confirmation hearings.
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Invigorated by a week of down time in Crawford, Texas, and a new poll that says he's edging ahead of John Kerry, President Bush today starts his seven-day, eight-state trek to New York in his own private "Florida," the increasingly Democratic and independent New Mexico, which he lost in 2000 by just 366 votes.
President Bush and John Kerry wake up in their own beds today, in Crawford and on Beacon Hill.
One state in which Ralph Nader's candidacy could have a major impact this November is Pennsylvania, where Al Gore won by a narrow margin in 2000.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is making his fourth run for the White House to fight what he calls corporate interests in Washington. He spoke to CNN's Lou Dobbs on Monday.
President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry are essentially tied in Florida, Ohio and Missouri, three of the most populous battleground states in the November election, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of likely voters released Sunday.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader was rejected Friday in his bid to try to attend next week's Democratic National Convention.
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One day after reaffirming his belief that "we have to be in Iraq," John Kerry wins backing today from Dennis Kucinich, whose antiwar base threatened to be a mild distraction from Kerry's coronation in Boston.
Hip-hop impresario Sean "P. Diddy" Combs launched a movement Tuesday to encourage young and minority citizens to register and vote. CNN's Judy Woodruff asked Combs why a successful entertainer and businessman would worry about getting people registered to vote.
President Bush rallies the faithful in Missouri and Iowa today, marking the second time in two days that the Bush-Cheney ticket has courted Show Me State voters.
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Even more than usual, today's story lines are ruled by rumors and race. And that's before we even get to John Kerry's NAACP speech, or his $2 million TV ad campaign aimed at black voters.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has called on Ralph Nader to give up his independent bid for president and support Sen. John Kerry -- a move quickly rejected by the Nader campaign.
Fueled by a $7.5 million haul last night that featured the requisite Bush-bashing and Whoopi-style bawdiness, John Kerry and John "the Kid" Edwards (per Whoopi) travel today to West Virginia and New Mexico, where the desert air should do wonders for their hair.
After months of speculation, Washington's favorite guessing game came to an end Tuesday when Sen. John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards to be his running mate. But what message does Kerry's choice of the North Carolina senator send to voters?
(CNN) -- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader failed to make the ballot in Arizona, his campaign announced Friday.
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Efforts by two conservative groups to help President Bush by getting independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot in the key battleground state of Oregon has prompted a complaint to the Federal Election Commission by a liberal watchdog group.
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Ralph Nader campaigned in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday -- for the Muslim vote.
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Ralph Nader faces the biggest test of his campaign this weekend, and it's not against John Kerry or George Bush. It's against David Cobb.
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President Bush's compassion tour takes him to a Baptist church in Philly today, where he talks about (quoting here) "Compassion and HIV/AIDS." Bush's 10:25 a.m. ET speech at the Greater Baptist Exodus Church, a largely black congregation, comes as he simultaneously tends to his must-win conservative base this week with a stepped-up call to ban same-sex marriage.
A meeting between independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and members of the Congressional Black Caucus turned into a shouting match Tuesday, after Nader made it clear that he would not drop out of the race.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Monday named Peter Camejo, a Green Party activist, as his running mate in the 2004 election -- an announcement that came on the same day he faced renewed pressure to drop out of the race.
Finally, the day we've all been waiting for. At 1 p.m. ET Monday, we'll learn his choice for vice president.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is crying foul over the ground rules for this fall's presidential debates, which will likely leave him sitting on the sidelines again.
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Returning from a tense day in Sea Island, Georgia, where his call for a stronger NATO role in Iraq was met with reservations, and facing troubling new poll numbers, President Bush today plans to visit briefly with Nancy Reagan and her family then view Ronald Reagan's casket in the Capitol Rotunda at 7 p.m. ET.
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Benjamin Beatty, a University of Southern California alumnus, voted for former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election and is definite he made the right decision -- then.
President Bush's approval rating remains virtually unchanged from the record low of his presidency two weeks ago, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader huddled for more than an hour Wednesday with Sen. John Kerry for discussions that both sides said focused on their common differences with President Bush.
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Sen. John Kerry continues to attack President Bush on gas and oil prices Wednesday, releasing a new "report" that we understand lays blame squarely in Bush's lap.
Two landmark court rulings will propel civil rights to center stage in the '04 campaign today, but only for a few hours this morning.
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Cindy Asrir says it's important to have variety in politics.
This week in "The Inside Edge," how the Google IPO may be just the economic break Bush has been searching for; how Dick Cheney is helping Ralph Nader and why Sen. Arlen Specter's close call this week should scare moderate Republicans.
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While President Bush continues his victory lap on job creation today in Arkansas, his campaign works quietly to demolish John Kerry's economic credentials before the senator has even unveiled his speech tomorrow.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said he will meet with presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry next month to discuss their "common objective" of beating President Bush in November.
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If it were up to John Kerry, every month this election year would be like February.
Reggie the Republican registration rig will be in Orlando tomorrow. So will the Blue Dog Democrats and their budget-busting red balloons.
This week, I look ahead not only to the general election (both strategies and potential issues, domestic and international), but also a few things that perhaps you haven't heard of yet. I also highlight an up-and-comer in one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate races.
Democrats vote today in Idaho, Utah and Hawaii, where more than a few caucus quirks leave some wags predicting a respectable showing by Howard Dean. Combined, these small states have more delegates than Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Wisconsin. But as Dean now knows, this race is not just about delegates. It's about mo'. And as John Edwards has decided, you get no mo' in Idaho.
Ralph Nader, a Green Party candidate for president in 2000, announced Sunday that he would again seek the presidency, this time as an independent candidate. The announcement worried Democrats, who believe that Nader cost Al Gore key votes in the close 2000 election.
Longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader entered the Democratic presidential race as an independent candidate Sunday, marking the third time he has made a run for the White House.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused both parties of being "for sale" Monday and rejected Democratic fears that his campaign would divide President Bush's opponents in the November election.
White House hopeful Ralph Nader issued a stinging indictment of corporate America Monday, while the top two Democrats in the presidential race wooed voters in New York and President Bush entered the campaign fray.
Calling all Ralph Nader supporters, those "millions of people" he said yesterday are disenchanted with a "two-party duopoly" that conspires against them -- the ones who have been urging him for months to make an '04 run: Yeah, so ... where are you guys?
Even as announced third-party candidate Ralph Nader planned a Monday morning news conference, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards predicted that Ohio and several Southern states would be battlegrounds in the November election.
Many political season observers will pay special attention Monday morning to Washington news conference planned by Ralph Nader to discuss his ideas for his 2004 presidential candidacy.
Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate and former Green Party presidential candidate, said Sunday he will run for president as an independent in the 2004 election.
The two leading Democrats left in the race for the White House were campaigning Saturday in some of the big states ahead on the primary calendar -- while Ralph Nader's scheduled appearance on a Sunday morning news show was giving Democratic strategists a bit of heartburn.
With consumer advocate Ralph Nader expected to announce this weekend whether he will run for president as an independent, Democrats urged him Friday to not seek a third-party candidacy, fearing he could ruin their White House hopes.
From CNN's Wolf Blitzer in Washington:
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