Green Giant?

With a week to go until Election Day, a small Ralph Nader rally in the crucial battleground state of Michigan wasn't anything to brag about, and it hardly looked like a threat to Al Gore's campaign.

But nationwide polls are showing Nader with four to five percent of the vote in some key states – and that worries the Gore campaign. Despite calls from some Democrats for Nader to quit, he's charging ahead.

On Tuesday, he launched a new air war; a cynical jab at what Nader has called the "arrogancy" of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

"When I grow up, I want to be disillusioned, disenchanted, disenfranchised. When I grow up I want politicians to ignore me," say children in the TV ad. Then an announcer intones, "Is that what you want from government?"

Democratic Party insiders argue that the people coming out for Nader would actually vote for Vice President Gore if Nader were not running. However, Nader claims these are independents, first-time voters and people from both parties who are fed up.

As for Nader, there's no turning back; he doesn't care who's elected and he's convinced he owes nothing to Al Gore.

He told CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones he doubts either Gore or George W. Bush will pay any attention to to him if they're elected.

"I've had eight years experience with Al Gore," he says. "I couldn't even get him to go down three blocks to the Capitol Hilton and address one thousand leaders of environmental, consumer, labor, minority, civil rights, women's rights groups – all groups that are in Washington. He couldn't be bothered, nor could Bill Clinton."

Nader will not stop. Victory for him will be getting the five percent he needs to qualify his Green Party for millions of dollars in federal matching funds. If those votes come from Al Gore, Nader doesn't care.