Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
Yeah or the Ross Perot fiasco in '92! Buchanon didn't actually make much of a splash though in 2000 did he?
No, but if I recall correctly, there was something with an unintuitive ballot layout which caused people to punch the hole for Pat Buchannon instead of Al Gore.
This lost Gore a sizable number of votes, though I do not know if they were enough to have changed the outcome.

Perhaps it would be better to compare Gary's influence on this poll with Nader's influence in 2000 (or 2004?), since the votes lost to pat were on accident, but the votes lost to nader were a consequence of his candidature.