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'''Ralph Nader''' (born February 27, 1934) is a [[liberal]] politician and pundit. He ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2004.
'''Ralph Nader''' (born February 27, 1934) is a [[liberal]] politician and pundit. He ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2004.
==Unsafe at Any Speed==
==Unsafe at Any Speed==
Nader sued GM and won $425,000, which he used to found liberal activist organizations that helped push through a staggering series of consumer and environmental reforms, most of them in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Nader sued GM and won $425,000, which he used to found liberal activist organizations that helped push through a staggering series of consumer and environmental reforms, most of them in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
==Presidential candidacy==
Nader's most successful run for President was in 2000, when, as the Green Party's nominee, he garnered 2.7% of the vote, and was blamed by many liberals for the loss of [[Al Gore]] to [[George W. Bush]], the reasoning being that most of the people who voted for him would have preferred Gore to Bush, and that thus Nader's candidacy may have tipped the election in Bush's favor. [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0626-04.htm]