Let me preface this post with a gentle reminder:
Let us please cut down on the hyperbole. It just adds confusion.
I get enough of it from what passes as "journalism". I see headlines like
A snapshot from the James Webb Telescope Changes Everything!!!
Everything? Oh, goody! It changed the 2024 Election!
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Jarhyn screamed at me, whined and whinged and accused me of being a liar when I quoted his mention of Nader. The Search facility shows me that Politesse mentioned Nader before either Jarhyn or I did.
No problem. But I did see this:
No, Jimmy. W won Florida with 2,912,790 votes. Not a thousand.
Bad reading comprehension on your part.
Bushes margin was a small fraction of the amount of votes for Nader. That's what "by less a thousand".
Tom
I know what he was arguing, I just thought it was stupid as hell, and still do. Just because Nader voters gave Bush a very slight advantage, does not mean Bush voters had nothing to do with his winning.

Did somebody actually say "Bush voters had nothing to do with [Bush] winning" ? That seems unlikely.
I'm guessing it amused you to be Hyperbolic. Does "Suzie is pretty" mean that every other girl in the world is ugly? No?
Am I wrong?
WHO is it that said "Bush voters had nothing to do with [Bush] winning"?
I'm GUESSING that you were trying to make the point that Bush voters were more to blame than Nader voters. Duh.
The point YOU are missing is that many or most Republican voters are Deplorables. Only patient gentle souls can hope to enlighten them, and most of us here at IIDB are running out of patience.
BUT the Nader voters were NOT Deplorables! They were NOT beyond Salvation. Just the opposite; many were intelligent! It would have been sweet if they had voted intelligently in their own interest. THAT is why some of us vent disgust against Nader voters. THEY should have known better, unlike many ignorant GOP voters.
I'm not saying your perspective is wrong, Politesse. I'm just explaining why intelligent good-thinking people voting against Gore inspires sadness and anger in a way that stupid right-wingers voting for a stupid right-wing candidate does not.