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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)by making it clear that it wasn't interested in reaching out to them or engaging them on the issues they cared about?
Yes, it would have been better if all progressives had voted for Gore, but it was Gore's fault and his campaign's fault that they didn't. There was nothing in the 2000 campaign that offered any good reason for them to do so.
Why, after all this time, are you STILL bound and determined to deny that this party has some responsibility for the defection of progressive votes in 2000? Why can't you admit that it's simply stupid and wrong for Democratic presidential candidates to focus their fall campaigns solely on "the center"?
Progressive votes, like any others, have to be earned. They can't just be demanded. Is there something wrong with admitting that, after all this time?