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What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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