Dude, where's my vote: self-defeating choice of pot plant over Bush

[RFKHumphreyObama]

Interesting article in today's Sydney Morning Herald about Nader and Bush:
February 24, 2004

Michael Moore, the American pamphleteering humorist, is angry that George Bush is President of the United States. Very angry: so much so that in the concluding remarks of his book Dude, Where's my Country?, Moore says: "There is probably no greater imperative facing the nation than the defeat of George W. Bush in the 2004 election."

What's missing from Moore's polemic is a recognition that he is responsible, in part, for Bush's presence in the White House. In Dude, Where's my Country?, Moore acknowledges that in the 2000 US presidential election, "the combined vote for Al Gore and Ralph Nader was over 51 per cent, enough to win any election". It's just that, unlike Australia, the US does not have preferential voting.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/23/1077497512234.html