Hain raises spectre of Bush's 2000 election May 2 2005

[emad]

Tomos Livingstone


Disillusioned Labour voters should not repeat the "mistakes" made in 2000 by US Democrats who voted for Ralph Nader and helped elect President George Bush, Leader of the Commons Peter Hain warned today.

Speaking at a rally in Blaenau Gwent - where Labour face a challenge from independent ex-Labour AM Peter Law - Mr Hain said the "progressive vote" in the 2000 American election had been split, allowing Mr Bush to win.

Disillusioned Democrats had voted for Mr Nader rather than Democrat candidate Al Gore "to feel better about themselves" and believing Mr Bush would not win, Mr Hain said.

He said it would be "ironic" if Labour voters angry over Iraq followed the same path by voting for the Liberal Democrats or other parties.

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[FloridaPat]

1. And voting for Pat Robinson didn't help either. Of course, they

didn't know they voted for him in Florida.

[Wickerman]

2. Buchanan

but, yep.

[FloridaPat]

4. Thanks

[BeFree]

3. Oh,.... I thought he was talking about...

...how we shouldn't allow activist judges to stop the counting of the vote.