22nd July 2004, 2:26 PM
Fine, they should be able to vote for the person they want... but Nader has tried to deny that his existence in the race lost it for the Democrats. Just look at the numbers for Florida, or New Hampshire, or another state or two, and you'd see how absurd that is... he isn't drawing mostly from Republicans and people who wouldn't otherwise vote! Yes, voting with who is the best candidate would be nice, but there are consequences... and in this country, with just two parties, the effect of a third-party vote is to vote against the major-party candidate you would otherwise have voted for. Normally this doesn't matter because margins are large, but when it's this close we see how clearly it matters...
My biggest problem was with all the people in 2000 who said Bush and Gore were the same. It was SO obviously not true, utterly ridiculously false, and it encouraged voter disintrest. Not good. And look what we got. Absolute proof that Bush and Gore are very different people indeed.
My biggest problem was with all the people in 2000 who said Bush and Gore were the same. It was SO obviously not true, utterly ridiculously false, and it encouraged voter disintrest. Not good. And look what we got. Absolute proof that Bush and Gore are very different people indeed.