> Face it: your faction fucked up bigtime. You thought that you could
> demonstrate the mass voting power of the American left without
> swinging the election to the right-wing candidate.
...and there's no contradition stating that Nader had every right to
stay 'till the end (and to have participated in the debates) and
concluding, if only at the last minute, that since Nader's campaign
was going nowhere, and since the Gore-Bush campaign was so
close, and since one is intelligent and more sentitive to social
concerns and the other is an idiot, then one should vote for Gore
and not Nader.
> But three percent of the vote--one-fifth of Perot's share in 1992--is
> not enough to impress anyone: the DLC will spend the next four years
> reminding everyone how small the Nader vote share was and how
> difficult it would be to capture it for the Democratic candidate
> (compared to the votes they think you could capture by fighting for
> the votes of, say, school voucher supporters in the center). Three
> percent of the vote may well, however, enough this time to swing the
> election for the right-wing candidate.
>
> To demonstrate your immense weakness and inability to mobilize voters
> while at the same time working against your own substantive political
> positions is the biggest display of political incompetence I have
> seen this fall, save for the way that Al Gore has run his campaign...
>
>
> Brad DElong
>
> political incompetence
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