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Originally Posted by xepherys
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You are making this out to be more looney than it truly would have to be. Has no presidential candidate ever lost his own state before? I don't see it as being important to the picture as a whole. It also doesn't seem to be part of any conceivable conspiracy. I didn't say that they made Florida vote for Bush... but it's PLAUSIBLE that the election there was rigged, and there is data to support that possibility. You don't see a difference between my example and yours?
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The swing was 5 electorial votes, TN has 11. If Gore had focused on his home state he would have won. If he could have gotten New Hampshires' 4 instead of the 4 going to Bush, Gore would have won. He lost NH by about 7,000 votes.
Perhaps Nader was the plant. He got 2% of the Florida vote, if most of those votes went to Gore, Gore would have won. I think Nader's vote total was more than what the new fraud accounted for (we have to assume x% of fruad in any election so for the conspiracy theory to work you would need a new fraud % fraud above what is normal). In NH Nader got about 4% of the vote, Gore lost by 1%.