Your facts are true, but irrelevant. When an official election outcome is as close as Florida was in 2000, there are dozens of necessary-but-insufficient causes. Yes, it’s true that Bush would not have won without Katherine Harris, or the Supreme Court, or Pat Buchanan, or the press’s treatment of Gore, or Gore’s own weaknesses as a candidate. It’s even true that in a state like New Hampshire, taking Nader off the ballot would probably have helped Bush more than Gore.

But. It remains an incontrovertible fact that without Nader, Gore would have won Florida, and thus the election as a whole. Bringing in those other facts might share the blame around, but it cannot change this reality.