Regardless of whether Al Gore or Ralph Nader was to blame for "losing" the 2000 election...

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81. Here's the exit poll results from a Harvard Political Science professor for a paper

Here's the exit poll results cited by a Harvard Political Science professor for a peer reviewed paper submitted to the American Political Science Association:



http://rangevoting.org/Burden.pdf


The evidence suggests that if Ralph Nader wasn't in the race 47.9% of his voters would have voted for Al Gore, 21.9% would have voted for George Bush and 30.5% would not have voted at all. (Page 8)


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Professor Burden published the paper while he was at Harvard University. He has since moved to the LaFollete School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin:

Barry Burden
Title: Professor
Website: http://faculty.polisci.wisc.edu/bcburden/
Affiliated With: La Follette School of Public Affairs
Office: 301 North Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 10am-11:30am
Phone: [phone]
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: [e-mail]

You can contact him with your questions. I have contacted several academics about their findings and they are pretty good at replying and discussing the fruits of their research.