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The End of an Era (mander.xyz)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he'd have become president.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Can I tell you a funny joke? Regardless of the Nader voters, Gore actually won in Florida and by a margin of a few thousand votes - still close, but an order of magnitude greater than the few hundred by which Dubya quote-won-unquote - but because of batshit ballot designs, unfair winner-takes-all methodology for awarding electoral college votes, endless bad-faith legal fights and a complete refusal/inability to shift the date of the inauguration, this was only agreed upon after it was too late to do anything about it.

    In 2000, the people of Florida and the United States as a whole voted for Al Gore for President, but their intent was stolen from them and the power to decide upon the direction and tone of the following twenty years was given to Bush instead.

    Oh, sorry, did I say "funny joke"? I meant something else.

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