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21. Still if either one of my exit polls is true, if Nader had not run, Gore would have been president.

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I cited 2 exit polls that said Nader drew a net of 13% more from Gore than Bush in one poll, and 26% more in the other. That article of yours cites one (without a link) that says he "drew the same amount of votes from both Republicans and Democrats: 1 percent". And "1 percent" of 6 million votes is 60,000, so something as small as 0.1% difference is 6,000 votes.

So we have two exit polls that say Nader's impact was way more than 537 votes, while one is simply inconclusive on the matter.

And that doesn't count Nader's constant tearing down of Gore, much more than of Bush.

Yes, I said Gore ran a poor campaign and all that. I didn't say Nader's presence was the biggest factor. Only that it was a large enough factor. Like ANY factor that exceeded 537 votes in its impact.

As far as Gore being so incredibly awful that he lost his base and all that, well, he still got more votes than Bush. Gore won the national popular vote by 500,000 or so, and got more votes in Florida too, according to the news consortium that counted the ballots about 6 different ways.