The fact remains that regardless of what happened in Florida, if just half the voters who chose Nader in NH “on principle” had considered the consequences of their decision and voted for Gore instead, there would never have been a “Bush 43" even with FLA being handed to Bush. And I will argue that those Nader voters…

Bush received 271 electoral votes and Gore received 266. New Hampshire had four electoral votes. In NH Bush beat Gore by 7211 votes. Nader received 22,198 votes in NH. If half the Nader voters had voted for Gore instead, Gore would have won New Hampshire’s electoral votes and would have won the election with 270…