Ralph Nader's Run for President in 2000 Showed That Minor-Party

Ralph Nader's run for president in 2000 showed that minor-party candidates are:

A) unimportant because so few Americans identify with these parties
B) unimportant because Nader, like most minor-party candidates, received only a small percentage of the vote
C) important because they can, like Nader, dominate press coverage during the election
D) important because they usually have the resources and money to weaken a major-party candidate with negative attack ads, as Nader did to Al Gore
E) important when the election is close enough that the minor-party candidate's vote total could potentially influence which major-party candidate wins in a critical state like Florida