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In reply to the discussion: Questions for those Dems who think Nader and Third Party Voters are [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)86. Note that three days before the election, 1/3 of voters were undecided
I have never seen anything like that before or since.
Yes, the media were against Gore, but he didn't seem to work very hard to overcome it.
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Questions for those Dems who think Nader and Third Party Voters are [View all]
truedelphi
Nov 2013
OP
When you place the blame for YOUR failures on someone else, you never get to fix the problem.
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#17
Pay attention to what they *do*, not what they *say*. Obama didn't want a Public Option, for example
Romulox
Nov 2013
#5
That's revisionist history. ACA passed with 60 votes in the Senate. Only 51 were needed to end the
Romulox
Dec 2013
#43
Nope. Senate rules can be (and just were) changed on majority vote. Very recent history proves it.
Romulox
Dec 2013
#53
THANK YOU for pointing this out. "we only had 59 votes" is going around lately, too.
DireStrike
Dec 2013
#59
The margin in FL in '00 was so small that it is clear Nader voters made the difference.
Motown_Johnny
Nov 2013
#6
From what you say, it sounds like Gore goofed by not campaigning in Tennessee
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2013
#75
Gore's full-throated support of NAFTA was enough to kill enthusiasm for him, all by itself.
Romulox
Dec 2013
#44
Don't put this back on Nader voters - Gerrymandering is a far bigger concern - and
truedelphi
Nov 2013
#15
I agree with the point that Zealotry isn't necessarily based on a religious pov
2banon
Dec 2013
#119
Nader voters, not Bush, responsible for Iraq War --beachbum bob, 2013
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2013
#125
The 3rd Way experts would rather whine about Nader than seek progresse/left votes.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Nov 2013
#21
There are no "Democrat Party Leaders" because there is no "Democrat Party"
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2013
#27
What about those electronic touch screen voting machines, in both 2000 and 2004, without any real
RC
Dec 2013
#34
A party should have to get 25% of the vote in primaries to get on the general ballots.
CorrectOfCenter
Dec 2013
#50
Maybe people wouldn't feel the need to go to a third party if the democratic party represented
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2013
#69
Majority demographics usually believe they are entitled to their privilage in some way.
ZombieHorde
Dec 2013
#61
So, would you vote for Hillary and the other Democrats who supported the war in Iraq?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2013
#71
"He didn't". And here's hoping the next candidate won't cater to it's extreme....
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2013
#77
Well, if he didn't "cater" to them he shouldn't squawk about not getting their votes.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2013
#83
OK. Then you shouldn't squawk because he failed to attract their votes.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2013
#87
So no blame falls upon the 29 cowardly Senate Dems who voted for the Iraq War?
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2013
#76
And if the purists had the sense God gave a lizard, Iraq would never have happened.
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2013
#78
In real life (the one where the Supreme Court appointed Bush), you know,
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2013
#85
or Katherine Harris, or the *admitted fraud* (it was on Time's front cover August 2001!)
MisterP
Dec 2013
#116
What a waste of an OP. If you don't get the damage that fools voting like idiots caused in
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#111
Nader is a liar who is just as responsible for the dead soldiers as anyone who voted for Bush...
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2013
#128
An aside: Ever wonder why we are "Dems" but Republicans are always "Republicans"?
WinkyDink
Dec 2013
#134