Said the state police officer, who would not give his name, "We were just there to make sure he was to leave."

It's been that sort of campaign for Nader, whose lawyer, Jamin B. Raskin '83, told the law school crowd that he doubts judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans will decide in Nader's favor when his case against the CPD is heard in appellate court tomorrow.

According to Raskin, the CPD's argument for excluding candidates who are not drawing 15 percent in national polls is that the commission is not "in the business of jumpstarting third-party candidacies."

"They're in the business of killing third-party candidacies," he said.

"There's a myth in this country that third parties can't make it," Nader said at Harvard. "Well, Rome wasn't built in a day."

In an interview yesterday afternoon, Nader said that despite his exclusion from the debate, he takes solace in his belief that the CPD will soon be out of the debate business. He hinted that public opinion would force the organization to either disband or reform its rules.

Nader said he hopes the CPD will no longer have the authority to keep third-party candidates out of the debates.

"I think this is the last time," he said.