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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
Mike, i'm sorry but I saw what Nader did to an election. Split it just enough to schrod everything up to the nines. Then he threatened to do it again...May God say us from these fruitloops...
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I could counter that by saying that if Al Gore had only managed to carry his own state---something that even George McGovern did--Nader wouldn't have screwed up anything.
There are also people who feel strongly that Clinton never would have won if Perot wasn't in the race.
Whether a third party candidate "screws up" an election is a matter of perspective. Truman managed to win re-elction with Henry Wallace splitting the liberal Democratic vote, and Strom Thurmond splitting the Southern Democratic vote. That's because Truman ran a fierce campaign--that's when the phrase "Give 'em hell, Harry" was born.
It's not Nader's fault that Gore ran a horrible campaign
