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.
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 Marxist-Leninist Party - 8753 votes
The Christian Heritage Party - 26722 votes
The Communist Party - 3639 votes
The Animal Alliance Environment Voters - 529 votes
The Canadian Action Party - 3508 votes
The “Neorhino” party - 2263 votes
The Radical Marijuana party (Pronounced “Radical Marijuana PAR-TAYYYYY!”) - 2319 votes
The First Peoples National Party - 1640 votes
The Work Less Party - 423 votes. Must not have campaigned hard enough.
The Newfoundland and Labrador First Party - 1801 votes
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