Reply #23: Reagan= Bush. Bush does not equal Gore and even less, Kerry [View All]

It is not reasonable comparison. Will Pitt would have a better chance to benefit from a match-up between Reagan and Bush than Nader would from Bush vs. Kerry or Gore. He also would be much less likely to act as a spoiler, but rather would take votes equally from each, because Reagan voters and Bush voters are the same people. Any votes that Nader pulls from the two major parties are going to be either from Democrats or people who have registered Republican for some reason other than political beliefs, and therefore might vote Democrat anyway, or people who simply have such skewed ideas about politics that they're registered Republicans just because of Clinton's BJ or some other reason that they've simply decided they hate Democrats.