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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      I don’t understand that conclusion. According to their table there, Gore lost by ~550 votes and Nader had over 90,000 votes. Do you really think those votes would have been evenly split?

      • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I know reading is harder than looking at the picture, but give it a shot and you will have your answer. Of course, you won’t. You will only cherry pick the things that you think will help your case. Problem is, no one believes you, and you aren’t going to convince anyone otherwise

        Edit: I did a bunch reading for you

        Gore lost his home state of Tennessee and New Hampshire. If Gore had won just New Hampshire and lost Florida, we would be calling him Former President Al Gore.

        As it turns out, only around 24,000 registered Democrats voted for Nader in Florida, compared with the 308,000 registered Democrats (or 13 percent of all Democrats in Florida) who voted for George W. Bush. It seems to me that the 308,000 Democrats who voted Republican in 2000 hurt the Democratic Party much more than the 24,000 Democrats that voted for Nader.

        Gore lost because 200,000 Democrats voted against him in Florida, electoral chaos reigned, and he failed to win his home state of Tennessee.

        Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Republican George W. Bush has now been completely nullified in the eyes of history by none other than former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who voted for Bush. Now she says, “It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn’t done a real good job there and kind of messed it up.”

        Imagine if O’Connor had thought that way in December 2000. Gore may have become president, and Nader would have had nothing to do with the results.

        https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-al-gore-ralph-nader-2000-20160527-snap-story.html

            • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 months ago

              Is it really that hard to conceptualize 90,000 > 550? Or that green party voters back then were much closer to democratic voters than republican? You have to ignore the most obvious fact in order to contrive others.

              • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                You have literally ignored every other point I have posted, keep screaming the same thing as if somehow the popular vote has ever won a presidency

                • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  Screaming? I thought I was typing…

                  as if somehow the popular vote has ever won a presidency

                  Uhh, that’s exactly how it works per state. The most popular vote in that state gets the electoral votes for that state.