If you ran into a Nader voter from 2000 what would you say to them?

[adam]

"Thanks "

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Thanks for giving us the win!  Keep up the great work!

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I would strangle them.

[Harry]

"It wasn't your fault, it was the fault of the so-called media and the god-awful Florida electoral system."

wrong, it was their fault

[Hashemite]

"Good job on electing Bush, I hope you'll think before voting for a guy with no chance of winning next time. " Then I would probably punch them.

[StateBoiler]

^ Who did you vote for in 1988?

The idea that in a democracy everyone can only choose between POS #1 and POS #2 is absurd. Don't like that? Change the system, support IRV for a start.

[Hashemite]

If I had been American and born in 1988, I'd have voted Dukakis.

Well from a US POV, that's how America is set up- really a choice between A and B. Voting for C in the United States is useless, unless there's a miracle, candidate C won't win.

I fully support PR, for a start.

[YRABNNRM]

If I had been American and born in 1988, I'd have voted Dukakis.

I don't know how they do it over there but they don't give new-borns voting rights here.

[Hashemite]

I wasn't even alive in 1988.

[Mesu]

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I don't regret it. Obiviously it didn't make a difference in Nebraska but If I ran into someone from florida who voted that way I don't see how I could be angry with them.
 
They problaby wouldn't have voted for gore anyways, since about 50% of the country didn't vote at all, there had to be millions of people who would've preferred gore to bush but they weren't compelled to vote for him.

Democrats take the 51% progressive/semi progressive vote in 2000 for granted(Nader cause alot of people to show up at the polls which problaby helped them in congressional and senate races). If they were more interested in good policies that retaining power they would've tried to install some sort of instant runoff voting system at the various times they were in power.

[Angel of Death]

Why should prospective third-party voters be effectively blackmailed into voting for a "lesser-than-two-evils" when the latter feels no obligation to subsequently change this sordid state of affairs in return? This alone should be more than sufficient proof that the Republicans and the Democrats are in it together.

Oh, and IRV would be a very poor choice for a national or state election system as it would require every vote to be tallied together, a logistical nightmare. A two-round runoff system (or, even better, approval) would already be a substantial improvement.

[StateBoiler]

A sociologist has theorized that Nader actually added to Gore's vote count in 2000, instead of taking away.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100973.html

[BushKenya]

What were you thinking?

[Ferdinand]

Thanks for voting your principles and not your fears.

[Buddha]

What were you thinking?

That the Democrats and Republicans don't offer us much of a real choice.

[Alexander Hamilton]

I dislike Greens not because they cost Gore the election- I supported him, but I didn't particularly want him to win- but because they're far left idiots. I would say that to any far left idiot I may encounter, regardless of party affiliation.

And yes, I would like you fanatical leftists to become Greens- you and Jfern in particular, if you're talking about Forum members.

Four and a half years will do a lot to an Atlas poster.

[Rob]

I'm flattered you would bump that, and there are plenty of equally crappy posts you could drag up from 2004 and 2005. It's nice to remember how far I've come.

Hey, maybe in four years, you won't be a dumb anymore, either.

[Alexander Hamilton]

I'm flattered you would bump that, and there are plenty of equally crappy posts you could drag up from 2004 and 2005. It's nice to remember how far I've come.

Hey, maybe in four years, you won't be a dumb anymore, either.

... That was rude, dude.

[Rob]

I'm trying to help you.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I'm flattered you would bump that, and there are plenty of equally crappy posts you could drag up from 2004 and 2005. It's nice to remember how far I've come.

Hey, maybe in four years, you won't be a dumb anymore, either.

It's funny how we used to argue all the time.

[Senator Libertas]

Congrats, you were smart enough to not vote for Bore or Gush.

[dialectical fetishist]

Gratz, you kept He of the Warming out of office. You delayed this recession by 5 years.

[Sasquatch]

If I ran into a Nader 2000 voter, I would say....


"If I was old enough to vote in 2000, I would have done the same thing."

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Thank you.

[Senator Ben]

Happy now?