Another thing to consider....
If you take Nader out of 2000 and give a majority of his votes to Gore, you have to take the other third party candidates out as well, or at least the ones that made a dent. Pat Buchanan. Even all of Buchanan's votes going to Bush still wouldn't be enough to derail Gore, assuming much of Nader's votes went to him, winning him Florida.
A recent comment made by Nader (who is likely to run again) sums it up: "Gore beat Gore." In other words, Nader's run shouldn't have cost Gore the election. It's not Nader's fault Gore failed to win his own home state of Tennessee. If Gore had done this, he would be president today.
I believe Gore's loss of Tennessee was even more important than his loss of Florida.
I don't think there's any problem being a "swing voter" if the definition of a swing voter is a moderate who although generally supporting one particular party, occassionally will vote for candidates of the other.
I think the "idiot voters" Ann Coulter is talking about are the ones that just have no political philosophy at all. The "idiot voters" are the ones who vote based on who they like better rather than on policy.
