{"id":5900,"date":"2004-07-01T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/01\/dirty-tricks.html"},"modified":"2004-07-01T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T18:22:21","slug":"dirty_tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/dirty_tricks.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, which is a more reprehensible effort to <a title=\"The New York Times - Odd Alliances Form to Get Nader on Ballot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/01\/politics\/campaign\/01NADE.html?pagewanted=2&#038;hp\">subvert the electoral process<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican activists signing petitions to get Ralph Nader on the ballot with the idea that he&#8217;ll draw votes away from John Kerry?<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block\">Conservative groups have already mobilized for Mr. Nader in Oregon as well as in Arizona, where 46 percent of the registered voters who signed petitions last month to get Mr. Nader on the ballot were Republicans, almost double the percentage of Democrats or Independents, according to a state Democratic Party lawyer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Democratic activists pretending to be Republican activists and filling up a meeting hall so that Republican activists couldn&#8217;t get in to sign the petitions?<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;I felt it as my obligation due to the dirty tricks that the far right were doing to stack the seats at that convention,&#8221; said Moses Ross, communications secretary for the Multnomah County Democratic Party. &#8220;I felt obliged to encourage our Democrats to do something about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I find it ironic that the candidate ostensibly running to break the two-party system instead finds his support and opposition focused on how his candidacy can help one or the other of the two parties.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2004_07_00.shtml#1088693633\">David Bernstein<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, which is a more reprehensible effort to subvert the electoral process: Republican activists signing petitions to get Ralph Nader on the ballot with the idea that he&#8217;ll draw votes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12695,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/thanks_ralph.html","url_meta":{"origin":5900,"position":0},"title":"Thanks, Ralph","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Feb-08 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because what this race needs is Ralph Nader siphoning of votes from the Democratic candidate (whoever it turns out to be), in effect assisting the Republican candidate. 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