• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Florida 2000 Presidential Election results:

    • Bush: 2,912,790 (48.847%)

    • Gore: 2,912,253 (48.838%)

    • Nader: 97,488 (1.64%)

    If just 538 Nader voters had gone to Gore, representing 0.0091% of the total vote, Al Gore would have been president.

    Tiny fucking margins can change the world. Ask a bunch of dead Iraqi people if they feel like there would have been no meaningful difference between Bush and Gore.

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      20 days ago

      To be fair, the US Supreme Court decided the 2000 election. Gore’s lead would have needed to be higher than the threshold to automatically trigger a recount for that outcome to have changed.

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      20 days ago

      Given that more Iraqis were killed by the Clinton era sanctions, crippling food and medicine access for Iraq, as well as the general hawkishness of the Dems, as evident again with Israel today, it wouldn’t have made a difference.

      When it comes to invading and murdering brown people, both parties are pretty similar. Heck Hillary Clinton always got a hard on for escalating to war with Iran.