Re: Mistake

Tony <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On 9/12/2011 10:07 PM, Bart Goddard wrote:
Tony<tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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In 2004, a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush. It was close enough
so that if Nader hadn't been running, Gore might very well have won.
Do you think all those Nader voters were happy with who they got?



Still not the point of my question. Y'all keep coming back to
the (simple) strategy, which we all know and understand. My
little issue is whether it's "fair" to say "you threw your
vote away" to a person who voted for Nader, but then not
to say it to the person who voted for Gore. What _really_
is the difference?

The difference is easy. Had all those Nader voters voted for Gore, he
would have won. Since they voted for Nader, Bush won who was the
antithesis of who they wanted in a candidate.


"Had all those Gore voters voted for Nader, then Nader would have
won. Since they voted for Gore, Bush won, who was the antitheses of
who they wanted in a candidate." So, yet again, who "threw their
vote away"?

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