"Great idea, but the problem is that every vote for him is a vote to keep this administration -by forfeit- in office."

I think you keep forgetting a very important fact in this matter Bill Hahn. And that is you are expressing your opinion. Your opinion is not fact. You obviously believe it to be a fact. Based upon your statement about you drawing "a totally arbitrary conclusion...from my own completely amateur polling", I'd say you often make these mistakes in logic.

Because Bush's supporters are enthusiastic, and don't critically evaluate their man's policies, etc doesn't mean that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush. Not only is that sort of thinking fallacious and illogical, it is also demagoguery.

Nader has a right to run as an independent. Some Democrats like yourself seem to think that because YOU suddenly think the country is going to hell in a handbasket (ie the middle class is finally being impacted by policies that both Democrats and Republicans are promoting), that we should suspend Ralph Nader's constitutional rights so that your guy has a better chance of winning.

That is fascism, and there seems to be a lot of it in the Democratic party these days.