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In reply to the discussion: How liberal would Hillary's Supreme Court picks be? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1) Gore ran a terrible campaign and picked someone to the right of Bush to be his running mate.
2) Florida had been steadily disenfranchising as many voters as it possibly could right up to election day.
3) On election day, over two hundred thousand Florida democrats voted for George W. Bush
4) Following the election, we know damn well the machines were tampered with, hacked, and manipulated.
5) We know that a very large number of votes were simply thrown out for having stray pencil marks in the margins, someone checkign "Al Gore" and writing in "Al Gore" etc.
5) we also know that the Florida Republicans and their hired goons conspired to freeze the vote counting.
6) A partisan court finally appointed Bush the winner.
7) We now know from counts after that SCOTUS decision, that Gore actually won by several thousand votes in Florida. Despite all that stuff above, there were still more votes for Gore at the end.
But it's Nader's fault.
Ah huh.