Frankham, well writ.

I saw Ralph N. on Good Morning America today and Charlie posed your question to him directly. His response "I am not concerned with that". He went on to explain that he was trying to build a movement, period. So there's your answer.

A little prognostication on what happens after the election:
If Gore wins: Bush goes back to Texas. The Republican party quits pretending and swings to the radical right. Nader becomes John the Baptist, Millenium Edition, shouting warnings and giving liberal baptisms in the poloitical wasteland. In America it's four more years like the last eight years

If Bush wins: Gore goes back to the campaign trail, debating anyone who'll have it (except Nader). Bill Clinton goes to work trying to figure out if he can legally run again in '04. Nader becomes the Ross Perot of the left, building a huge but ineffectual organization, all "sound and fury, signifying nothing". Tax breaks all around, a two year hangover (like Reagan had) and a gradual slip into recession.

If Nader wins: Global warming is solved due to the effect of hell having frozen over. Corporate America closes up shop and moves to Mexico where "the government knows how to play ball"; they issue a statement to the effect that they were planning to do it anyway and should now be referred to as "Corporate Central America". The Cubs win the pennant.

Pat Buchanan wi - I can't even write the words, much less entertain the thought.