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In reply to the discussion: Re: the recent spate of "will you vote if_____?" - aka "loyalty" threads. [View all]We are talking bout the election in 2000, not Global Warming Deniers.
You give SUPERMAN powers to a mild mannered Consumer Activist.
Nader single handedly knocked the wheels off of the entire Democratic Party.
That image makes me smile.
Politicians lose elections....not voters.
NOTHING can be blamed on the voters.
If the troops are not motivated, it is an failure of leadership, nothing else.
If you find the courage to do a reality based assessment, then the problem can be fixed.....or you can just keep blaming the voters and our democracy.
Truth is, the Gore campaign threw away those votes in Florida.
They "calculated" they wouldn't need them, so continued to ignore the Nader camp.
If Al Gore had once, ONCE, turned to The Left and said something like, "I hear your voices.
Maybe NAFTA isn't such a good idea. I can't promise anything except this, I will listen to you.
M door is open."
....if he had said something like that, he would have been President in 2000,
but the campaign chose to ignore Nader in Florida. Bad mistake.