Evidentally, all signs point to a Ralph Nader Meet the Press announcement that he is indeed going to seek the presidency of the United States.

Indeed, he was written a rather hilarious response to the Nation’s editorial urging him not to run: Found Here (My response was found here.

The funniest thing here is this: Ralph Nader recieved 2.7% of the vote in 2000. A paltry sum by any reasonable estimation.

In the state of Florida, he received 1.63% of the vote. (The other two states that often come up as states that Gore would’ve won the election if he had won, New Hampshire and Tennessee, one can not credibly say that Nader cost Gore.) I hear this statistic bounded about that if one percent of Nader’s Florida voters had voted for Gore, that Gore would’ve won the election. This misunderstands the new calculus for the recount battle, and how the two sides would’ve played the game… Bush still has Katherine Harris sitting there.

A question: How much more support above this one percent of Nader’s Florida voters would’ve been able to stomach voting for Gore? I hazard to guess — not a whole lot, really.

So, the Democrats are nervous about one percent of the vote, are they? Well… to each their own.

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