Endgame by Michael Grunwald goes into the impact that the Everglades had made on politics in the late 1990's as many projects intended for the Everglades were the main focus for Floridians. One of the projects that were discussed by politicians at this time was an airport for the Everglades. The Homestead airport was a project that was being funded by many investors, but the development of this airport was coming at a time where much money was going into restoring the Everglades." It made no sense for the federal government to green light a major airport at the edge of the Everglades at the same time it wanted taxpayers $ 8 Billion to restore the Everglades." This quote shows that at the time preserving the Everglades was a major point of interest for the state. At the time Al Gore who was vice president who was indeed focused on environmental issues, but was on the fence about the airport. "Airport opponents kept up the pressure. In February they threatened to protest an Environmental voters for Gore rally." Because of this pressure on Gore's campaign it shows that the right decision needed to be made, thus the rally was cancelled. As the election was coming closer activists were stilling pressing the Gore campaign about the airport which they received a profanity for a response. This would eventually lead to having Voters turn to a new candidate in Ralph Nader. The reason why I thought this section in Endgame was interesting is because I do enjoy politics and the 2000 election was one of the earliest memories I still remember. Now hearing these details of how the Everglades played a part in this election makes sense as Gore would lose a lot of potential voters to 3rd party candidate Ralph Nader. With Nader getting over 10,000 votes because of just the airport issue alone it shows how the Homestead airport played a part in  America history as it shifted the election towards Bush's favor as he would beat out Gore by only 537 votes in Florida. This shows that no issue regarding Florida's environment should be taken lightly as voters do care about the well being of their state.