Added sources in lead  Others such as Progressive Review and An Unreasonable Man refute spoiler claims pertaining to the  presidential election The Top  The Most Influential Figures in American History Atlantic Monthly December  p The assertion by the Atlantic that Nader made Bush president was disputed by Sam Smith publisher of the Progressive Review in that magazine Smith Sam December   MythMaking for Why Democrats Lose reproduced in the newsletter CounterPunch Smith wrote that Gore lost his home state of Tennessee Bill Clintons Arkansas and traditionally Democratic West Virginia with any one of these Gore would have won Nine million Democrats voted for Bush and less than half of the three million Nader voters were Democrats