Reply #34: No proof but...

[mydawgmax]

if, of the 90something thousand votes Nader got in Florida, just 600 had voted for Gore, Bush would not have been able to claim Florida's electoral votes. Maybe all Nader voters would have gone somewhere other than Gore absent a Nader candidadcy, but I don't think its too far a reach to think that a small fraction of nader voters would have voted Gore had Nader not run or had he encouraged voters in close states to vote Gore. Gore should have run a better campaign and has to take responsibilty for that. Nader, however, did make an independent contribution to Bush's election that he too has to take responsibility for.