WASHINGTON - March 23 - Washington, D.C. - Ralph Nader may have been abandoned by some of his celebrity backers, railed against in Democratic Party circles and skewered on late night TV, but the consumer advocate still packs a powerful punch with young voters. According to the latest NEWSWEEK and Newsweek.com Genext poll, the feisty Nader, widely blamed for Al Gore’s defeat in the 2000 election, drew twice the support among voters aged 18-29 as he did in a comparable poll of all registered voters. The groundswell of youth support could mean good news for Nader, and perhaps more significantly, for President George W. Bush.

For the Newsweek/Ipsos Genext Poll, Ipsos-Public Affairs interviewed 354 registered voters aged 18 to 29, from March 1 to March 17, 2004. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.1 percentage points. References to poll data on registered voters of all ages are from an AP/Ipsos poll conducted March 1-3 on 771 registered voters. That margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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