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In reply to the discussion: Re: the recent spate of "will you vote if_____?" - aka "loyalty" threads. [View all]progree
(10,893 posts)and it was Kathleen Harris purging Florida's voting lists of supposed felons and being Florida's Secretary Of State during the recount, Gore running a poor campaign, the butterfly ballots that you mentioned, the U.S. Supreme Court stopping the recount -- yada.
[font color = red]On Edit[/font]: And that G.W. Bush's brother was governor of Florida, and that lots and lots of Conservadems voted for Bush (and likewise lots of registered Republicans voted for Gore, but oh well), and ...
[font color = red]Edited:[/font] But all that doesn't eliminate the fact that even with all that, Gore would have won if not for Nader drawing thousands more votes away from Gore than from Bush, according to exit polls asking Nader voters who they would have voted for (or not voted at all) if Nader had not been on the ballot (Officially, Bush beat Gore by 537 votes in Florida. Nader got 97,488 votes in Florida. Please See #32 for more on that..)