I know Michael Moore is not universally popular here,

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34. only with the help of the 12,000 more votes (according to Nader) that Nader drew from Gore

than from Bush.

Bush stole the election. Read.

Yes, but with the essential help of Nader pulling in 12,000 (according to Nader) more votes from Gore than from Bush. In a race that Bush officially won by 537 votes.

Once again --

Yes, yes, I know there were a number of reasons Bush officially beat Gore -- ALL of them were essential to Bush's victory -- IF EVEN ONE of these elements had been missing, Bush would have officially lost,

e.g. besides Nader’s candidacy, Kathleen Harris purging the voting lists of supposed felons, Gore running a poor campaign (in so so many ways), media dubbing Gore a serial liar (Love Story and all that), the butterfly ballots giving Gore's votes to Buchanan, the U.S. Supreme Court stopping the recount -- yada.

But it doesn't wipe out the fact that even with all that, Gore would have won if not for Nader drawing thousands more votes away from Gore than from Bush.

Yes, the factors you cite in #28 were larger than the 12,000 or 26,000 more votes that Nader drew from Gore than from Bush. Yes yes yes.

But again, it doesn't wipe out the fact that even with all that, Gore would have won if not for Nader drawing thousands more votes away from Gore than from Bush. In a race that Bush officially won by 537 votes.

From #28 --

Google Nader's Madison Square Garden 2000 speech. Every thing he said was prescient.

I'm sure it was, with Bush being president, thanks to Nader and Michael Moore. And the 2 Bush RW Supreme Court "justices" -- Roberts and Alito.