Unsafe on any ballot.

Nice little column at The New Yorker on the legacy of Ralph Nader. Nader gets big plus marks for his work on automobile safety and helping to establish the EPA, OSHA and the CPSC, among other accomplishments, and big minus marks for helping put into office the current administration which is undermining all those positive efforts. At this point, the column suggests, the net legacy for Nader is still positive. But if Nader's 2004 candidacy has the effect of keeping Bush in office for four more years - although the columnist doesn't think it will - then the expected Nader legacy will be negative, and could be summed up as "George W Bush."