| Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, now campaigning as the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee, is still only a blip in the polls. But he is on the ballot in every state except Michigan and Oklahoma. Republican operatives fear that Johnson will become their version of Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate whose relatively modest support cut into Al Gore's 2000 vote arguably enough to help hand the decisive states of Ohio and Florida to George W. Bush. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.