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saw this on line though Buchanan more spoiler than Nader, in state-based analysis The conventional view is that Nader cost Gore a victory, while Buchanan was not a factor, because Nader won 2.8 million votes to Buchanan’s 450,000. But the key question is which states were so close that third-party voters could have made a difference, had they instead voted for Bush or Gore. There were 8 states in which no candidate received a majority of votes. In ME and NE, Gore won , so those are moot. In FL and NH, Bush won, but by fewer votes than Nader received . In the remaining four states, IA, NM, OR, and WI, Buchanan’s vote total exceeded the difference between Gore and Bush. Combined, these four states account for 30 electoral votes, or one more than FL and NH combined. In other words, if Buchanan has dropped out and his supporters had switched to Bush, Bush would not have needed Florida to become president. "‘../askme/election_by_state.htm’" Source: Davis Leonhardt, New York Times, p. 4 Dec 10, 2000
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