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WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader, the consumer crusader who roiled the U.S. presidential campaigns in 2000, 2004 and 2008, is sitting this election out.
Or is he? As he prepared to speak to a rally last week at Lafayette Park across from the White House, Nader, 77, stopped short of saying “no” to another campaign.
“Very unlikely,” he said of the chances he will run again. But a re-energized Nader, after watching the emerging Occupy Wall Street movement take off this fall, is reaching out to the crowd of young protesters, who echo his cries of “corporate greed” and “oligarchy.” And it’s enough to make him hedge about his campaign prospects.
“It’s hard to say if the Occupy movement would make it different,” he said.
