173,000 voters being purged from the rolls in Florida had an impact.
Another 100-200k voters having their votes invalidated or misappropriated through that "hanging chad" nonsense had an impact.
308,000 voters from the Democratic party voting for the Republican candidate had an impact.
This is just looking at the voting itself, if you really like I could get into the state GOP's corruption and efforts to fuck over the entire process. And if you've got time, I could point out that Gore was running a fucking awful campaign.
All of the above are factors well before 97,000 non-Democrats voting for someone other than a Democrat. Seriously, hte fact that Republicans voted for the Republican is more consequential and you might as well be demanding they be ashamed for not voting for the Democrat. It'd make as much sense.
"Blame Nader" is the Democratic Party's coping mechanism. it has no basis in reality, but it's a reflexive tow-minute hate meant to absolve Gore of any responsibility for his godawful campaign, and also to preserve the Democratic Party's fetishization of bipartisanship by avoiding any blame directed at the GOP.
And, hate to burst another bubble of yours, but at the time I was 17 years old and living in Alaska. So your hypothesis of why I'm taking your bullshit to task is sorely mistaken.
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