But he thinks there's a *big* difference between Gephardt and Hastert--big enough that it's important to elect Democrats to the House. The difference between Gore and Bush is at least 2/3 the difference between Gephardt and Hastert.
The "not a dime's worth of difference" was George Wallace's line: it was false then, and false now.
> The news has been pretty confused this morning,
>but I gather that Wisconsin did finally go Gore's way,
>although close as hell with Nader clearly a major factor.
>Unfortunately, Nader appears to have failed to achieve
>his 5% while nevertheless (probably) throwing the
>election to Bush.
Yep. A pretty substantial defeat. Demonstrate that you can't pull in many votes *and* throw the election to the right wing candidate.
I haven't seen a better example of shooting yourself in the head in quite a while (save for the quality of campaign that Al Gore ran this time).
Brad DeLong