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In reply to the discussion: Would a progressive third Party help the Democrats more than the Republicans? [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)that, having decided to vote, they would have voted for Gore (rather than some other 3rd-party candidate).
I have never seen any post-election analysis\exit poll that either supports or disproves that assumption. Seems to me the same argument could have been made about Pat Buchanan's 3rd-party candidacy, the so-called 'Butterfly ballots', and the votes Buchanan mysteriously aggregated in a predominantly Jewish county at Gore's expense.
Are you saying that Nader had no right to run for office? Or are you saying he should have not exercised his right in the interest of not diluting the Gore vote? Should he, in your opinion, have endorsed Gore (even though the basis for his candidacy was that there was little substantive difference between Gore and Bush)?