I don't believe that encouraging Leftists to vote for Nader is necessarily "working against the Republican candidate".
The fact is, encouraging Leftists to vote for Nader helped to lose Al Gore the Election in 2000. If you don't realize that encouraging Leftists to SPLIT THEIR VOTES does, in fact, help the Republican, I'd advise you to look over Nader's Vote Totals -- versus Gore's margin of defeat -- in the battleground States for the 2000 Election, one more time.







