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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny" [View all]standingtall
(3,144 posts)and comparing the 92 election to the 2000 election is total false equivalency. Perot didn't run as a hard line conservative and held many centrist and even some left leaning economic positions and got a good chunk of what would've been Clinton voters. You'd have to figure out how much Clinton vote and how much Bush vote Perot got and recalculate electoral college math. If you gave Bush every Perot vote Bush Bush would've won in a landslide winning California and coming within an eyelash of winning New York which absolutely would not have happened. The 2000 election came down to just 500 votes in a State the size of Florida and Nader was clearly left winning and I doubt many of his voters would've voted for Bush and if they would it would only be, because Nader conditioned them to think that way with his both sides are the same message a lie we are still dealing with until this day. If Nader would've dropped out of the race and encouraged his supporters to vote for Gore or at least not promoted the both sides are the same narrative. Gore would've won and wouldn't have even been close enough for the Supreme Court to steal it.