• Sybil@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Fact of the matter is, if Nader wasn’t on the ballot in 2000, Gore would’ve like had a healthy margin

    you can’t prove that.

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      9 months ago

      Nope, but you’d have to be fooling yourself if you thought, the people at the Nader rallies were down with Bush. If Nader wasn’t on the ballot, those votes were going to be Gore, people who declined state, or people writing in candidates out of protest.

      Gore needed less than 1% of Naders voters. The odds would’ve have clearly been in his favor.

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        9 months ago

        you can’t prove a counter factual. In a world where Nader isn’t on the ballot, you don’t know who the dem nominee was either.