Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said Monday he’s running once more for the presidential nomination of the environmentalist Green Party. He said he hopes to get on the ballots in as many as 45 states and win as much as 5 percent of the vote, diluting the support of both the Republicans and Democrats. “Politicians of these two parties only look back when you take away their vote,” he said at a news conference. Nader, the lawyer who first gained prominence taking on the auto industry in the 1960s, received less than 1 percent of the vote when he ran in 1996. In 1992, Nader collected about 6,300 write-in votes in the New Hampshire primary, sometimes drawing crowds that rivaled those of major-party candidates. Nader, 66, has pressed for campaign finance overhaul, environmental protection, workers’ rights and trade-law changes.
