How much of an issue will the 2000 Florida fiasco be?

[WVdemocrat]

It won't be an issue, and it shouldn't be. It would be ridiculous for the Democratic nominee to attack him on that, the Democratic nominee should focus on substance rather than vicious character attacks. By the way, Gore's loss in Florida is much more attributable to the butterfly ballot than to anything Jeb Bush or Katherine Harris did. It's questionable whether or not Gore would have been able to get 538 votes even if Bush and Harris didn't actively sabotage the recount effort. On the other hand, Pat Buchanan himself said that he believed some people voted for him mistakenly thinking they were voting for Al Gore. So because what they did in 2000 probably wouldn't have really affected the outcome anyway, it's a non-issue, and it would backfire on the Democratic nominee to use it in 2016.