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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Ohio, Missouri, New Hampshire, Washington, and several other states were Bush victories by very narrow margins. Interestingly, if you exclude the close states, and call all the states Gore won by a handy margin for Dean, Dean will start off with more electoral votes than Bush (thank you, NY and California).
Ohio is an interesting one, because Gore pulled all his resources out of Ohio early yet came very close in the state (STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!).
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I was talking to someone close to Ron Klain a few months ago, and we got to talking about the election. He pointed out that Buchanan made sure to do his campaigning only in states where he couldn't affect the outcome, but that Nader -- while saying that his goal was to get the Greens to 5% -- did the opposite, and did not campaign in places like Austin, where he could have pulled in votes without making a difference in the electoral tally, but instead campaigned in places where he could hurt Gore, like Seattle. The Gore campaign kept scheduling and rescheduling a trip to New Hampshire toward the end of the campaign, and in the end cancelled it for the last time to go to Seattle after Nader went there. They then lost New Hampshire by a tiny margin, much less than the bump they would have received from a visit there. The person I talked to says Ron Klain still kicks himself for this.
