Poll Confirms Nader as Kerry's 'Nightmare'

The big story out of that new presidential poll from the Associated Press is that Ralph Nader is "the nightmare Democrats long feared," the Boston Herald noted today.

Kerry's camp today was in overdrive to spin the survey's results, which showed President Bush favored by 46 percent, John Kerry by 45 percent and Nader by 6 percent.

A poll that Pew Center released Thursday, which excluded Nader, had Kerry ahead 48 percent to 44 percent.

"Ralph Nader is fouling it all up," grumbled Kenneth Freeman, an 86-year-old retiree in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. "He's taking votes away from the Democrats. I think he's on an ego trip."

Nader's supporters "are showing their dissatisfaction with Bush by going with a name they recognize," insisted Jenny Backus, a consultant for Democrats. "It's nothing a little voter education won't change."

Will this "education" be of the sort taking place in America's failed government school monopolies?

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