Ralph Nader's Run for President in 2000 Showed That Minor-Party

question 19

Multiple Choice

Ralph Nader's run for president in 2000 showed that minor-party candidates are:

• A) unimportant because so few Americans identify with these parties
• B) unimportant because Nader, like most minor-party candidates, received only a small percentage of the vote
• C) important because they can, like Nader, dominate press coverage during the election
• D) important because they usually have the resources and money to weaken a major-party candidate with negative attack ads, as Nader did to Al Gore
• E) important when the election is close enough that the minor-party candidate's vote total could potentially influence which major-party candidate wins in a critical state like Florida

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