Having spent 15 of my 24 years working on dem election campaigns in Florida, I can say that bushthief won nothing. bushthief waged an all out assault on American democracy in Florida in 2000 because he knew he couldn't win if all of the votes were counted. The alleged 537 vote total was created by the Jeb/Harris cabal because they flatly refused to follow Florida election law and count all of the uncounted Florida votes because they knew that counting all of the uncounted votes meant victory for Al Gore. Several hundred thousand uncounted Florida votes still sit uncounted in the Florida archives. Most of these votes are located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who these voters voted for. It sure wasn't for bushthief
The corporate media was a major problem. They made no effort to cover up their support for bushthief while they relentlessly trashed Al Gore with numerous false allegations. The corporate media's war against Al Gore is well documented in the archives of the Daily Howler blog. Too many in the progressive media spent campaign 2000 helping Nader spread his big lie that there were no differences between Al Gore and bushthief. Despite all of this, Al Gore still got the most votes both in Florida and nationally.
The repug controlled SCOTUS saw an opportunity to impose their preferred Presidential candidate on the country and trash the will of we the people and they took it. Sandra Day O'Connor made no bones about the fact that she wanted to retire and she did not want Al Gore to appoint her SCOTUS successor.
The illegal Jeb/Harris felon purge was also a factor because it illegally removed more than 50,000 legally registered mostly African American democrats from Florida's voting rolls in 1999 and 2000.
In the end, Nader can never escape the ugly truth that he helped install bushthief in the White House. Nader was in Miami the last weekend before election day 2000 spreading his big lie that their were no differences between Al Gore and bushthief and knowing full well that Florida was a crucial battleground state. Florida was one of the crucial battleground states that Nader ran his $5 million tv ad campaign again spreading his big lie that was paid for by the repug leadership council which was a subsidiary of the repug national committee.
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