is Ralph Nader now completely irrelevant?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I say yes. Another one of the few good outcomes.

[A18]

You mean he wasn't already completely irrelevant?

[Democratic Hawk]

At least he didn't have a detrimental impact on Kerry like he did Gore

Dave

[Silent Hunter]

Aye. He's completely irrelevant. Probably didn't swing a single state.

Where was his best performance anyway.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think it was Alaska again. He got 2%

[angus]

I say yes. Another one of the few good outcomes.

No, he is not.  Ralph Nader is the reason your car has seatbelts.  Ralph Nader is the reason cement factories are required to have filters, or scrubbers, in the smokestacks of their furnaces.  Ralph Nader is the reason lobbying groups like Citizen Action, and research groups such as PIRG, exist.  Though you may take for granted the many many consumer-protective and safety-oriented legislative actions of the past forty years, it does not mean he is irrelevant.  Unappreciated by you?  yes.  Irrelevant?  Hell no.