Reply #94: Re:"He pandered to religious conservatives"

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Lieberman delivered more votes for Gore than he lost because of him.
In other words he lost liberals but he won more conservatives (not necessarly Republicans) by picking Joe. I'm not a big fan of Joementum but it was a good tactical move, not the least because he managed to separate himself from Clinton, which is exactly what Karl Rove didn't want to see. His goal was to link Gore to Clinton because his polling and focus groups showed Clinton was a loser in 2000. So after the convention they desperatly tried to re-link Gore to Clinton in the voters' minds -- which couldn't have succeeded without the bastards in the press accusing Gore of lying at every turn.