>According to the Green Party (not anymore nonpartison than the Dems or Repubs) it wouldn't have mattered:
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>http://www.gp.org/organize/spoiled.html
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>The smaller parties always get blamed for stealing votes from the two big parties. A view back in 1992 was that if Ross Perot hadn't run and captured 17% of the vote George H.W. Bush would have been president again.

Aren't they basically blaming the(ir own) voters for not voting for them but rather choosing something else? :)