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I'd say Nader votes in Florida made a BIG difference.
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Originally Posted by summers73
How so?
This is a first for me: FancyFeast is right. The presidential race was so close that year that whoever won Florida would win because of the Electorial College numbers. Gore lost the popular vote of Florida to Bush by less than 1000. Nader won over 90,000 of Florida's popular vote, more than enough to have changed the outcome. In exit polls almost 40% of Nader's voters said they would have voted for Gore had Nader not been on the ballet. About half of them wouldn't have voted for anyone and the rest would have gone to Bush, but bottom line, Gore would have won Florida with them, and thus the election.
This is a first for me: FancyFeast is right. The presidential race was so close that year that whoever won Florida would win because of the Electorial College numbers. Gore lost the popular vote of Florida to Bush by less than 1000. Nader won over 90,000 of Florida's popular vote, more than enough to have changed the outcome. In exit polls almost 40% of Nader's voters said they would have voted for Gore had Nader not been on the ballet. About half of them wouldn't have voted for anyone and the rest would have gone to Bush, but bottom line, Gore would have won Florida with them, and thus the election.
How do you know that more non-voters wouldn't have voted for Bush knowing there wasn't a "spoiler" in the race, instead of sitting on their duff? Have you accounted for other factors that would adjust if there was no third party candidate? Also, was that poll taken before or after the election? Might have made a difference if people say stuff like that in hindsight.
There is no such thing as "taking" or "stealing" votes. It's a tin foil hat theory, nothing more.
How do you know that more non-voters wouldn't have voted for Bush knowing there wasn't a "spoiler" in the race, instead of sitting on their duff? Have you accounted for other factors that would adjust if there was no third party candidate? Also, was that poll taken before or after the election? Might have made a difference if people say stuff like that in hindsight.
There is no such thing as "taking" or "stealing" votes. It's a tin foil hat theory, nothing more.
As they left they polling place.
Of course it isn't taking or stealing, no one said it was. It does however impact the elction results.
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