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[Jim Lane]

24. It's cherry picking to single out any one cause where "ultimately the responsibility" lies.

Nader made his initial mark (in the 1960s) in tort law. That field teaches us a useful lesson: its recognition that an occurrence can have more than one proximate cause.

If Katherine Harris had not abused the power of her office to wrongfully disenfranchise thousands of people, Gore would have become President.
If Nader had chosen to run in the Democratic primaries instead of in the general election, Gore would have become President.
If the Supreme Court had decided the case on the law rather than on stark political maneuvering, Gore would have become President.

With all three of these statements being true, none of the responsible parties can completely escape blame by pointing the finger at one or both of the other culprits. The Supreme Court acted last in time but that doesn't erase everything that happened before.