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When a team wins in football, don't you only count the final field goal that decided the game? Or do the other 60 minutes count too? Gore lost his home state
by chillwaves 11y ago
When a team wins in football, don't you only count the final field goal that decided the game? Or do the other 60 minutes count too?
Gore lost his home state but Nader cost him the election. Gore wanted a partial recount in Florida (when a full recount would have been in his favor) but Nader cost him the election.
Curse those Green party voters for not falling in line!
- tptacek 11y agoNader sapped support from Gore throughout the entire election. Again, the problem isn't that it's wrong to run for President. The issue is that if you know you're pulling support in a close election, and you have no chance of winning, then it becomes legitimate to ask whether the point you're trying to make by running is worth the cost.
- wfo 11y agoOur electoral system is broken in that it doesn't allow voters to reasonably express preferences which aren't one of the two mainstream options because of this spoiler effect. I'm not sure what the correct answer is, to complain about how "both parties are terrible" and vote for the mainstream party anyway and get more of the same and know that it will never change or to vote how you actually feel knowing that the system is rigged against allowing you to do that. I can't really fault someone for doing either.
- tptacek 11y agoI agree that our system is broken, but that's not news, and when you take actions within that system that cause harm, you remain culpable for the harm; you can't just appeal to a different electoral system.