Remember all the Michael Badnarik interviews before the 2004 election?

[NNN0LHI]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004

No? Me neither. Who is Michael Badnarik? He is the Libertarian candidate who received only about 60 thousand less votes (397,265) than Ralph Nader (463,653). How come I never remember seeing Michael Badnarik on my TV even once while Ralph Nader who was everyones media darling was on everywhere all the time? I have even seen Ralph hosting shows on CNN as the liberal voice but I never seen Michael Badnarik hosting any shows. What gives here?

Don

[depakid]

1. The fact that Nader's been a public figure

for over 40 years might have something to do with it....

[ISUGRADIA]

2. Nader received almost 3 million votes in 2000

the libertarians putter along but they have never close to their highest vote, 921,000, back in 1980. Nader was a political force from te 1960s on. Badnarik was, is, and will be an obscure figure.

[Puregonzo1188]

3. I remember Badnarik

He was all over C-SPAN as a third party candidate along with David Cobb, Michael Peroutka, and Walt Brown (but not Nader). They appeared on a episode of the Washington Journal that was entirely about "alternative party candidates" (but no Nader) and the Third Party Candidate Debate. (Also no Nader). Here's a whole bunch of his C-SPAN appearances you can watch online.http://www.c-span.org/Search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=Michael+Badnarik+

So I really don't know what you're trying to say here, though Nader does have more name recognition, being a consumer advocate for 40 years and not someone who discovered Libertarianism at the Farmers Market.