I hope he does it, it will make the Connecticut Senate race very interesting:
Former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is mulling a run against Sen. Chris Dodd (D) in Connecticut, according to a report.Would love to see a debate between the three candidates. Maybe Dodd can explain his Countrywide loan agreement.Nader, the 2000 and 2004 Green Party candidate for president, is "absorbing" the prospects of waging an independent candidacy against Dodd in 2010
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I was thinking of reading his book.
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Super-Rich-Can-Save-Us/dp/1583229035
I like the idea of a third party to break up the duopoly we now have. But the current voting system ensures that a third party tends to produce a perverse outcome. The third party candidate will split the vote with the candidate he is ideologically closest to and elect the candidate farthest from him.
The 2000, 1992, 1912 elections could all be considered examples of this effect. There are other voting systems such as the Borda count which don't produce this result, but we're not using that system.
Shame he won't run against Lieberman.
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