Gore's campaign

[TomC]

In an election as close as the 2000, one can find dozens of ways to cast "blame" for the outcome. Gore's sighs in the debate, Clinton's infidelities, the executive branch of Florida's questionable manipulation of the voter rolls.

Actually, I blame Pat Bucannan, who basically got the Reform Party nomination and went into hiding, failing to turn out several percentage points of hard right voters that he had been cultivating over the previous decade, which would have taken as many votes from Bush as Nader took from Gore. But Pat really seemed to give up. Pity.