RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Consumer advocate and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader predicted Monday that he will qualify for the November ballot in all 50 states.
Nader said that while the Reform Party is somewhat fractured, his party is "growing quite readily" as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties -- "which is really one party with two heads wearing make-up."We're going to be on every state's ballot," he told about 100 people who turned out at the University of Nevada, Reno. "This is going to be a four-party race in November."
The progressive Green Party, founded in 1996, shares Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's view of government as "a public check against the excesses of monied interests," Nader said.
Nader said too many working Americans have been left behind in the booming economy.
Nader, who received less than 1 percent of the vote as the Green Party candidate for president in 1996, said he plans to visit all 50 states. Nevada is the eighth state he has visited so far.