A
variable, in the 2000 Presidential campaign, denoting
kotowing to corporate interests.
Green Party Presidential
candidate Ralph Nader said:
“On the central issue of corporate power, the only difference between Gore and Bush is the velocity with which their foreheads hit the floor when corporations knock on their door.”
Nader, quoted in the
San Francisco Chronicle on
June 15, 2000, sees Gore and Bush "competing for the
presidency to see who will take the
marching orders from their corporate
paymasters."
Nader, who has a snowball's chance in hell of even receiving 5% of the popular vote (except in key Western states, throwing key electoral votes to Bush), presumably would have a negative number to express this variable.