the nonsense that nader cost gore florida is another zombie lie that will be with us forever. in fact, it is quite likely that nader's vigorous campaign brought gore more votes nationally and in flordia than otherwise would have been cast for him; nader himself has acknowledged that many potential nader voters--who otherwise would not have been voters at all--later admitted that they chickened out and voted for gore due to media and peer pressure.
gore fucked up much. he ran a shitty campaign. he failed to utilize bill clinton where he could have made all the difference. he didn't do a good job of messaging and pushing back against the media misrepresentation.
however, the thing that absolutely cost gore the election was his disastrous choice of the heinous joe lieberman as his running mate.
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