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In reply to the discussion: Jill Stein fires back at Liz Warren [View all]sherlocksistah
(51 posts)in the previous poster's link on Real Clear Politics, there's a pretty clear reason why Gore lost his home state of Tennessee:
"Anything can be blamed, like Gores failure to win Tennessee (a cheap shot, since Gore had shed much of his Southern conservatism by 2000, making Tennessee a reach)"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/31/nader_elected_bush_why_we_shouldnt_forget_130715.html
Also, another pretty good article about how the Republicans, mostly Karl Rove, ran ads for Nader in swing states in both 2000 and 2004!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html
Also, if you really want to delve deeply into the whole mess that was the 2000 election, a very detailed statistical study proves the point that Ralph Nader was the spoiler in that election.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/lewis/pdf/greenreform9.pdf