Bemac
2008-02-26 19:44:35
Nader was irrelevant in 2000. Gore lost the election in his home state of Tennessee, not Florida. (Florida was where Team Gore hoped to turn its loss into a win.)
If Gore had managed to win his home state, he had more than enough electoral votes to claim the White House, Nader or no Nader. But even with Nader’s votes in the Volunteer State, Gore wouldn’t have won Tennessee.
Team Gore came up with a campaign strategy that cost him the electoral votes of his home state. I suspect Gore realizes that Nader had nothing to do with his loss.
