National exit polls said that half of Nader voters would have supported Vice
President Al Gore had Nader not been on the ticket. Thirty percent said they
would not have voted and the rest would have gone for Bush.
In Florida, that would have translated into an additional 30,000 vote margin
for Gore.
It just does not cut it to argue that Nader voters did not help elect Bush.
You can rightly blame Gore for running a poor campaign but Nader voters
share the blame for putting Bush and his rightwing corporate allies running
the executive branch. Some will argue that punishing the Dems will lead to
long-term gains to compensate for creating these short-term losses, but
Nader voters helped inflict those short-term losses on our country.
For those who will suffer in pain from RSI injuries without compensation,
those losses will be very real.
Nathan Newman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Laffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9436] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ergonomics, etc.
What evidence is there that Nader voters were in fact potential Gore voters?
That is, is there any data to show that had Nader not been an option, the
people who voted for him would have voted for Gore? Surely that is the
correct question to ask. Nader voters may simply have stayed at home rather
than voting for Gore.
Mark Laffey
