  For the record, this is not my official reply in the Mr. Locke debate. But it is related. With a heavy heart today I took urlLink Dean for America off my blogroll. I almost deleted the line, and then stopped just short of total disenfranchisement. If you look to the right of this entry, you'll notice that I put a urlLink Vote Nader link in instead. As I flashed over to Nader's page to double check the link, I was pleased to see the press release that announced the urlLink Associated Press poll results show Nader holding 6% ! Go Nader! My Howard Dean posters are little more than placemats on my desk now. I think I'll save them and put them up in my someday home office. I still have my "I Voted in Election 2000" button, I should have that framed and hang it next to these posters. It can be the wall of urlLink Should Have Beens . The nice thing about supporting Nader is the comforting knowledge that you're in it for the long haul. Despite the majority of his urlLink stated platform goals , his real objective is to establish a viable party alternative to democrats and republicans.
For Nader, viable is defined as receiving federal election monies. Maybe in thirty or so years, he'll win his battle, or someone else will in his name. It can be the Nader Party. And it will garner at least a fifth, if not a good third of the national vote, forever killing the terrible dichotomy of two-party politics here in the US. Now that Nader's polling at 6%, 20% doesn't look so impossible. 
