Reply #10: You might want to blame the game too, not just the player

[Selatius]

If there were a Majority Rule in place in Florida, there would have been a run-off in Florida because no one in 2000 there garnered 50% of the vote and one more vote. In the second round, many of those Nader voters most likely would've switched to Gore after Nader's elimination, and Gore would've won. If we were using IRV (instant run-off elections), the outcome would've been decided in a second count.

I see people attack Nader a lot, but I don't see as many attacks on the flaws of the system, and if we're going to talk balance here, all I'm asking for is a little equal representation on the issues.

If the system were reformed, then Nader running wouldn't have punished the damn electorate for voting their conscience on the issues. This is what you get when you don't have electoral reform, and that's what the Democratic Party gets for not attacking the problems decades earlier before 2000.