“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln
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I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.
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i admire the sentiment, but i fail to see how lincoln's or jfk's or, hell, franz ferdinand's assassination affected society less than electing gerald ford or james polk
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I was thinking more George W. Bush versus Al Gore. If Gore had won (which he actually did), there would’ve been no Iraq war and there would’ve been a massive national commitment to combating climate change.

Oct 13, 2020 · 6:52 AM UTC

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No, Gore did not win. That's been proven over and over (ask the NY Times as one source). If he had just won his home state he would have been president but he couldn't do that. He couldn't even win Clinton's home state.
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if the people who win the popular vote don't actually win the election, why bother voting at all?
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Are ya drunk? Gore would have been in Iraq like a fly on flapjacks...
On what do you base the wild assumption that there would have been no Iraq war?
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