Nader blabbering on MSNBC. Still not apologizing for Bush.

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43. Well maybe if Gore had gotten help from 100,000 Perot voters

he'd have won Tennessee too.

Kerry lost Tennessee by over 300,000 votes. Obama lost Tennessee by almost 400,000 votes. George Bush Sr. won Tennessee by 58% to 42%. In 1980, Reagan won Tennessee over an incumbent from the South. (Squeaked it out by 4,700 votes).

Sure, Gore could have devoted more resources to Tennessee and won there. Spend more time campaigning there.

But then what happens to Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon and New Mexico? Resources are not infinite.

Gore won Iowa by 4,144 votes or .31% where Nader took 29,374
Gore won Wisconsin by 5,708 votes or .22% where Nader took 94,070
Gore won Minnesota by 58,607 votes or 2.4% where Nader took 126,696
Gore won New Mexico by 366 votes or .06% where Nader took 21,251
Gore won Oregon by 6,765 votes or .44% where Nader took 77,357
Gore lost Tennessee by 80,229 votes where Nader took 19,781 and was not really a factor, but Gore might have campaigned there or run more ads there if he was not worried about losing Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon, Minnesota, New Hampshire or New Mexico.

Gore lost Nevada by 21,597 where Nader took 15,008. Not a difference maker, but without Nader, the Bush campaign might have worried more and devoted more resources to winning Nevada.

Gore did the best he could to win. I did everything I could to help Gore win (and he did win Iowa, and I take some credit for that. I think I helped. I think my LTTEs and phone banking made some difference.)

Naders actions though, just helped Bush to win. That is a simple fact.

I don't know why there is any argument about that.

Sheesh, it is like Nader is a wide receiver who dropped a whole bunch of passes on purpose, and people are saying, well if Tom Brady had done this, or the defense had done that, like the dropped passes had NOTHING to do with the loss. Gore might have done many things different, but at least he was trying to defeat George W. Bush. Nader, however, was not. Nader was trying to elect George W. Bush.