Re: Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org

If only 1000 of the 200,000 Democrats hadn't voted for Bush, your argument
would have some relevance within the context of the preceding post.

Bob C
Idahoan for Nader
"George Cleveland" <georgecleveland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:seme7013kcvuvs0bis03op3k0mpv3oekd8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:19:12 GMT, "Bob C in Idaho" <bobc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >"Twelve percent of Florida Democrats (over 200,000) voted for
Republican
> >George Bush"
> >-San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 2000
> >
> >The Greens received 97,488 votes and the votes cast for all other
candidates
> >and write-ins amounted to 40,579 --grand total of 138,067.  So one
could
> >logically conclude from these figures that NO votes cast for Ralph
Nader
had
> >any affect on the outcome.  However, had registered Democrats trusted
their
> >parties choice, George Bush would likely be reading comic books at his
Texas
> >ranch rather than in the White House.
> >
> >If figures don't impress you, please, explain how you can conclude that
> >votes not cast for Nader (or any of the other non-major candidates)
> >automatically convert in to votes for Gore?
> >
> >Bob C.
> >Idahoan for Nader
> >
> >"rw" <rw56_to_the_chase@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:a9Idc.3836$A_4.3064@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Bob in Idaho wrote:
> >> > Precisely!  Votes cast for Ralph Nader have absolutely no affect on
the
> >> > outcome of the race between the two main candidates, no matter
where
> >those
> >> > votes were are cast.
> >>
> >> How about, for example, Florida in 2000?
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Cut "to the chase" for my email address.
>
> Absolutely illogical. If only 1000 Naderites had voted for Gore
> instead of Ralf, then we wouldn't have the assholes we currently have
> in control of the Whitehouse. Perhaps other assholes but certainly not
> the ones there now. In the system we have now, with no run off
> elections  between the two top vote getters third parties will always
> have the effect of tilting the election one way or another.
>
>
> g.c.