I disagree most strongly that how one votes for president depends
upon how the race is going in the state in which you live. What race?
Bush is a good-old-boy ignoramus the very notion of whose election as
president is shameful. Yet the people are so disgusted with what has
been done with power and how it is wielded that the polls show they
see no more point to voting for Gore. Worse, the percentage who think
that voting makes a difference has dropped to hwere less than half
will bother.
The issue is simply whether or not the election will put an
alternative party in a position to reach the entire people next time
on something at least remotely approaching an equal basis, thanks to
government campaign funding. Do we build a movement for change, or
don't we? That's what Nader represents. Instead of agonizing over
whether to waste a vote of Mr. Me-Too, one should get off the computer
and go knocking on doors of non-computer peole to build the Nader vote
to a certainty of that magical five per cent.
Bill Mandel
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