This year the major news sources didn’t even put him on the board. How many votes did he get? I’ve tried the basic Google but am not coming up with much.
I found this California cite: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/pres/index.html
Amazing that anything more than a few dozen people would vote for Keyes or any of the other banana slugs.
Is there a cite that gives the official vote count?
657,389, though I assume the count is ongoing.
Which amounts for almost precisely 1% of Obama’s take.
I find it just eternally amazing that you can find over half a million people to vote for Ralph Nader, even in a country with as many voters as the USA. It just blows my mind that even one out of every 200 people, no matter how stupid or cynical or crazy they might be, could actually stand in a voting booth and say “You know who’d be a great leader of the world’s most powerful nation? Ralph Nader. What we need in the White House is a really old, bitter jerk who did some stuff about making cars safer back in the 70s.”
Of course, I shouldn’t talk. The following parties all actually got votes - miniscule amounts, but some - in Canada’s recent federal election:
The list goes on. Ralph Nader might do well here.
Why the f*ck would a “Newfoundland and Labrador First Party” be running in a American presidential election?
How many votes did the late Pat Paulsen get I wonder…
Is that a whoosh? (a Newfoundland is a dog).
((and that list was referring to a Canadian election anyways))
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