On October 22nd, blogging on “the nonsense inbetween,” nicole wrote:

I’ve been doing some research and Nader’s Peace and Freedom platform appeals to my idealistic side in a way “hope and change” only hint at. I like to believe that within each of us is a spirit to love one another in a way that would take Peace and Freedom from idealism to reality.

If my vote ends up in this third party ticket it’s not that I don’t believe Obama would be a better president than another Republican, it’s that I believe in something even more.

Obama Costs Nader the Election

By Bob Maschi

Election results are in and they clearly indicate that Democrat Barack Obama has cost Peace and Freedom’s candidate, Ralph Nader, the presidency. Simple math proves that had Obama not run, and had all of his support gone to Nader, that Nader would have easily won the majority of Electoral College votes and, therefore, the presidency.

A similar electoral flaw occurred in the 2000 presidential election when Al Gore cost Ralph Nader the presidency.

From Ballot Access News

October 15th, 2008

C-SPAN will broadcast the October 19 debate between Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin, although it is not yet known if it will be broadcast live. The debate will be Sunday evening, October 19, at Columbia University in New York city. The moderator will be Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio. It is possible that Pacifica Radio will also broadcast it.

Bob Barr declined to participate because he is scheduled to speak somewhere else that evening. According to this MSNBC story of October 14, he will be campaigning at colleges in Ohio and Virginia during the period October 14-23.

The Press-Enterprise is reporting…

About 25 people, most carrying signs protesting any war with Iran, eagerly awaited Ralph Nader arrival at Fairmount Park in Riverside on Saturday.

Nader, who is running as a presidential candidate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket in California, arrived about an hour after the protest was scheduled to end. Die-hard Nader supporters who waited for him were not disappointed.

For more plus a video about Ralph Nader’s visit to Riverside, go to the Press-Enterprise website.

An interesting bit of news from Ballot Access News:

Trevor Lyman, the person who organized the Ron Paul money bombs, has launched an effort to create a six-person presidential debate in New York city in October. The six candidates would be the six individuals who are on the ballot in states containing a majority of the electoral college: Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, John McCain, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and Barack Obama. Lyman will go ahead if he gets financial contributions (in any amount) from at least 10,000 individuals. He already has pledges from 702 individuals. The pledges would go toward the cost of holding the event, not to the candidates’ campaigns.

It is most unlikely that either Barack Obama or John McCain would participate, since they have presumably already signed a contract with the Commission on Presidential Debates, promising that they would not participate in any other general election presidential debates.

For more information, go here, to Lyman’s webpage, thirdpartyticket.com.

From the VoteNader.org website and YouTube: