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Pollitt, Katha | December 18, 2000 issue

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Longtime Green activist and former member of the town council of Princeton, New Jersey, Carl Mayer accepted the mainstream analysis that Ralph Nader votes had cost Al Gore the election. Nader had mobilized 150,000 volunteers and 50,000 donors and sparked the formation of some 500 local Green organizations and 900 campus groups, and changes the tenor of the whole race" by pushing Gore to take populist stands against the drug and oil industries. Mayer even argued that it was because of Nader that U.S. President William J. Clinton declared wilderness areas national monuments in several Western states and that the FDA approved RU-486.

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VOTING; NADER, Ralph; GORE, Albert, 1948-; ELECTIONS; GREEN movement; VOLUNTEERS; PRESIDENTS -- United States; UNITED States
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