Clinton the spoiler

[Max Sawicky]

> From the current Economist:  "Mr Clinton, a two-time winner at the
national
> level, will probably take on mythic proportions as the shrewdest of
> political operators. But, in fact, his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky may
> well have cost Mr Gore the election. Some 44% of voters told pollsters
that
> the Clinton scandals were either very or somewhat important to how they
cast
> their vote, and three out of four of these voted for Mr Bush. This is
> despite the fact that two-thirds of voters polled also said that they
> thought the country was heading in the right direction economically, which
> should have given Mr Gore an easy victory."   Carl

In light of the size of the margin of defeat at present count,
two things are obvious:

1.   Any of twenty factors could have reversed the result,
possibly including the abstention of the SWP candidate;

2.  To attack Nader above all the other factors says more
about the critic than the object of criticism.

mbs