In 2000 Nader ran as a 3rd party candidate, taking votes from the Democratic candidate Al Gore. In FL George W. Bush defeated Gore by 537 votes; Nader had received 97,421 votes in that state. This, combined with other factors such as that Gore also lost his own home state of TN, led to a GOP win.
It would have been brilliant of me to end that previous post with "... led to the election of Barack Obama" but with people on here being like they are just now, that would have been unwise.
It's not somethg on which I could be flippant, but I do suspect that in the long-term view, an awful majority of what we've experienced goes back to that a Black man got elected President in 2008, and a vary large part of the USA viscerally, in their guts where fear lives, Could Not Deal With That.
Historically unpopular candidate loses his own home state, gets fucked by the anti-democratic electoral college, Dem leadership blames everyone but themselves for this.
