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In reply to the discussion: Gore not becoming President: whose fault? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I'm sure everyone here agrees that anyone who voted for Bush in Florida in 2000 (or in any state in any general election) made a mistake. I'm also sure that everyone here agrees that their mistake in no way excuses Katherine Harris's illegal purge of pro-Democratic voters.
You wrote in #29 that Nader "had zero effect on the outcome." Do you honestly believe that, if Nader had exercised his constitutional right to not run in the general election, the Gore-versus-Bush tally would have been unaffected? It depends on your assessment of the people who in the real world voted for Nader. Is it your position that, in a hypothetical scenario in which he's not on the ballot, the number of those people who would have voted for Gore would be roughly equal to the number who would have voted for Bush? If so, do I understand correctly that your sole basis for that position is party registration?