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In reply to the discussion: What percentage of "very liberal" voters have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton? [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)This doesn't mean that Nader was the only factor. Nominating Lieberman was dumb. Running a tepid and frightened campaign was dumb. There's plenty of blame to go around. But, without a doubt, Nader shares part of it.
Full disclosure, I was almost a Naderite in 2000. I was even worse, a non-voter. It was my first election. I wasn't politically involved, but if I did vote, probably it would have been Nader. I bought into the whole "both parties are the same" anti-corporate line.
It didn't take very long to figure out how foolish I had been. Even before the IWR. It was a quick and brutal lesson. Elections matter. Honestly, if Gore had won, I don't think there would have been a 9-11, not because of any conspiracy, but because Bush stopped paying attention to Bin Laden and the whole terrorism threat because his advisors told him to focus on Russia and other ideological enemies.