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Zero Cool's avatar

I think you have a different interpretation of what I am arguing.

Gore won the election (even Nader knows this) but he didn’t run the best campaign. That’s my overall point. He also ran away from President Clinton a bit by choosing Joe Lieberman to appeal to conservative voters. He could have gotten more of the voters on the left that would have otherwise voted Green. Gore also became more liberal and a global warming alarmist after the 2000 election.

Agree with what you’re saying about Gore combating global warming. Just mentioning I’m talking about Gore’s campaign, not about voting for him or not.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Remember, I've been a socialist since 1979. No-one had any excuse for not voting for him because he he was "no different from Bush."

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Zero Cool's avatar

I completely agree with you. However, regarding Al Gore’s appeal to the left, he just didn’t get them inspired. That’s what I’m getting at here.

Back at college at SFSU, there were Gore supporters but most of the students who were fired up were because of Nader’s presidential campaign. It was hard to convince them to move in Gore’s direction. Gore simply did not fire up these voters that much. Might have made a difference for him in maximizing the votes but that’s all pure speculation.

Of course, Gore could have selected Bob Graham who unlike Lieberman was not a war monger.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Yes, or Governor Jeanne Shaheen of NH. But the bottom line is that while Gore made strategic mistakes, voters were responsible for their actions.

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Zero Cool's avatar

Yes indeed!

It was obvious that Bush Jr was going to represent a complete reversal of progress that the Clinton era made.

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