election where people make that claim is the 2010 mid-term. It was reasonable to conclude that was the election that you were referring to when referencing "in recent years". I provided evidence to the contrary. In fact, as I said, the left voted in the same numbers as they did in 2006, when Pelosi won the gavel. So the left didn't sit out 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002 - which leaves us with 2000.
2000 - an election that had so many working parts from nefarious quarters such as butterfly ballots, voter caging, Brooks Brothers "riots" and the Supreme Court as well as Nader. Please refer to Greg Palast's magnificent reporting on the grand theft of the 2000 Election. Here's one link.
http://www.gregpalast.com/florida-by-the-numbersal-gore-won-florida-in-2000-by-77000-votes/
Actually, working our way backward to 1984 - it could be said that it was DFLers in Minnesota as well as the "extremist left" who were the folks who voted for Mondale and Ferraro - the moderates and centrists gave us Reagan. 
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