NicoleC, I am from Florida. The county in which I live -Alachua- is very heavily Democrat but in the last election they went about 80% for Nader. If those Nader votes had been cast for Gore, as they almost certainly would have been, Gore would have had several THOUSAND more votes from that one county alone.
This is the opinion of the Supervisor of Elections for the county. I learned of this from my brother, Skeptic, who works for the county and knows the Supervisor quite well.

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