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Originally Posted by SmartAleq
As for spelling it out--trust me, it's being done. Not on mainstream media, who are very carefully leaving out the Green party and Jill Stein on polls and news, but the word is out there. As for "remembering 2000" it's been disproven over and over and over and over and over and OVER that Nader had any effect on the outcome whatsoever. Gore didn't even carry his own home state, FFS, and there were a lot of other factors that made that shit happen--Nader just got the blame but it's all bullshit.
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Had Nader not run, Gore wins Florida and is elected president. So what if he lost Tennessee?
Nader got nearly 100,000 votes in Florida. Exit polls indicated that in a two-man race, Nader voters preferred Gore over Bush by a better than 2 to 1 margin. No Nader, No Bush. Nader had every right to seek the office, but let's not pretend he didn't have a profound impact on the election.
These "cult of personality" third party runs are pointless, and only serve to shgw that parties are started from the ground up and not the other way around. Their supporters are just too lazy to do it.