Bush v. Gore: 'Too close to call' (2015)

CNN's Gloria Borger looks back at the contentious 2000 presidential election, which pit then-Texas governor, Republican George W. Bush, against Democratic vice president Al Gore. As stakeholders on both sides of the race describe, the race came down to the key state of Florida and launched into 36 days of political chaos in the Sunshine State. #CNN #News

[@TrixiLovesYou]

One of the biggest mistakes ever that set the stage for the rough mess the 21st century turned out to be.

[@adventuresconjuan]

Exactly.. trump is using gore’s playbook which is why we are in this mess today

[@johnadams1281]

how was it a mistake? Bush got more votes in Florida and won. Just because the networks called it early (and wrong) for Gore doesn't mean it was a mistake. Actual votes won it for Bush

[@bober1019]

trump being 1st...

[@VRcation]

Had gore won, the housing bubble would have still happened and John McCain would have become president in 2008

[@JonathanRodriguez-ib5ct]

Al gore is a loser his wife left him I !

[@ZEPPELIN198]

I remember when this was the biggest scandal we had to deal with. Good times, in retrospect

[@samarmisra4922]

Allan Lichtman predicts that Kamala Harris will win and beat the unhuman loser Trump as he predicted Trump would win in 2016

[@fmgmack]

Not really you were just complacent because they blatantly stole an election that gave is one of our worst presidents ever 😂 there is no worse

[@mintchevvv1834]

And now trump is your #47!!

[@ZEPPELIN198]

@mintchevvv1834 Yes and I'm thrilled 😁

[@jamesmukuria6669]

@ZEPPELIN198 more like being anxious. Bush did won in 2000 and 2004, which was kind of happy in all.

[@dominicdmello7531]

Possibly the worst decision considering how war hungry Bush was.

[@kevinjenner9502]

The “Downing Street Memos” clearly show Intel and policy being fixed around a predetermined decision to Invade Iraq.

[@christinacody8653]

I don't know if Iraq or Afghanistan would have happened had 9/11 never occurred.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11…The International Commission of Jurists Geneva. The invasion of Iraq was neither in self defense against armed attack, nor sanctioned by the UN Security Council authorizing the use of force by member states and thus constituted the Crime of War of Aggression”

[@cfvgd]

See this is the problem with brainwashed Americans... you really think there would be a difference? Gore would have done exactly the same.

[@icommentalots]

The Supreme Court signed away the lives of tens of thousands with the stroke of a pen

[@vegascousin]

And 2001 came..... Everyone forgot that this happened.

[@vercingetorix3839]

It's happened 4 other times in presidential elections that we've forgotten just as well. The president who ostensibly wins the count, even if it's well within a margin of error, wins most states without a possibility of a recount. People mismark their selections, change their signatures, cast in the wrong precincts. The margin of error for counting votes is well above the margin of victory required for a recount in most states.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKbGdXmohJ1sgdE Al Gore actually won, he was cheated out of power.

[@GouFPS]

bush was the president we needed not the one we wanted. But, imagine gore winning (he actually did btw but that recount was years later).. 9/11 happens and I don't think he would have handled it well which means no Obama 2008 but probably W Bush as McCain isn't winning any primaries against him. So any republican would have likely won 2008, so now comes 2016.. Does Trump run?... Actually no he does not.. 2000 set Trump in motion for 2016, gore wins no trump, bush wins we get trump. Hillary would have lost to anyone anyway or someone smart and actually let's Bernie win the nomination in 2016 and while I do NOT like socialists/socialism he would have had the same effect on the economy as Trump and actual medicare reform not the shit Obama passed that fucked everyone over.

[@cartwrightworm1317]

The new century wasted no time in becoming a mess.

[@jamesmukuria4673]

No way in heck it would becoming a mess after bush won the election, And he did not stole the election!

[@mintchevvv1834]

Cry more

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKbGdXmohJ1sgdE Al Gore actually won, he was cheated out of power.

[@bamosaid6672]

@@mintchevvv1834 the comments 8 months old

[@umcanes2005]

If Gore had won New Hampshire, he would have won the Electoral College 271 to 267. He lost NH by only 7,211 votes. I think that his campaign manager failed him by not investing enough in NH, and his election team in general really should have sussed out the ballot design in Palm Beach County well before the election. I am flabbergasted that Democrats actually approved that ballot design. They set him up for failure.

[@Manatti06]

distancing himself from Clinton as well

[@Colin_1977]

He would’ve won if he carried his home state (TN).

[@KingK2205]

@@Manatti06 Yes.

[@cjrecordsofficial3652]

And if your aunt was a man she'd be your uncle, but she's not, so she isn't

[@pauls6677]

Too many votes for Nader

[@tddrogers98]

If gore had focused more on winning New Hampshire he wouldn’t have even needed Florida

[@realtorrich]

And he lost his home state (Tennessee)

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKbGdXmohJ1sgdE Al Gore actually won, he was cheated out of power.

[@TBrl8]

25 minutes in, and they still haven’t explained the vote count, the recount numbers, or anything to do with numbers.

[@brightlight7217]

They're enemies of the true.

[@DavidMorseMusic]

Bullshit ​@@brightlight7217

[@benaggett812]

Yeah, like who got the most votes? Seems quite simple...

[@williamflanjack6438]

You came to CNN for information? 😂

[@TBrl8]

@ I guess you like the fox propaganda network.

[@jameshacker8808]

The state law required a recount and the officials in charge of counting stopped the recount and blatantly admitted in this documentary they were trying to do anything to stifle any possibility of otherwise by blocking the recount.

[@zachlee7945]

like? wtf is that

[@GouFPS]

@@zachlee7945 a recount was done years after 2000 and it was found that Gore won. I don't remember the exact year tho.

[@ntgr87]

@@GouFPS it's not quite that clean: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida#Post-election_studies

[@TheJratz7]

@@GouFPS prove it

[@Michael103101985]

If he had won his own state which had gone Democratic in the previous two elections, FL would not have mattered.

[@braddavid902]

Or even if he would have won new Hampshire which has went Democratic in every election after 200, he would have won and Florida would not have mattered

[@ianfreeman5244]

@@braddavid902 Or Missouri, which went for Clinton twice, also could have put Gore over 270.

[@MikeDeasey-ki8en]

Exactly, this was another candidate like Hillary people didn’t like.

[@GouFPS]

@@MikeDeasey-ki8en Gore was liked, Hillary is just snake oil.

[@jilllove8873]

After all these years it’s still very hard to view the history of this..

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKbGdXmohJ1sgdE Al Gore actually won, he was cheated out of power.

[@c4knowledge562]

Gore would have never invaded Iraq

[@Rickrick1993]

I’m Glad he wasn’t elected. Thanks Bush for saving me from Iraqi people.

[@baybae92]

@@Rickrick1993

[@Rickrick1993]

@@baybae92 Are you drunk?

[@evasiuk]

@@baybae92No i think he’s just Kurdish

[@CIAOFFlCAL]

wrong they all wanted to invade then

[@jacksonmadison9994]

Take me back to the late 90s / early 00s

[@AryanManIam]

Ok boomer

[@CorekBleedingHollow]

I'm starting to feel bad for Gore.

[@John-ct9zs]

Gore would have been a one term President, because the 9/11 attacks were going to happen no matter what. Republicans already blamed Bill Clinton for the 9/11 attacks, saying it was a weak, liberal soy boy Democrat President that couldn't get Osama Bin Laden is why manly macho President GWBush had to put with getting attacked. So if they pushed that stupid story, imagine if the attacks happened under President Gore? It would have been non-stop 24-7 blaming Gore, calling him a weak, soy boy liberal pro-gay tree hugger, etc, etc. George W. Bush would have likely won in 2004 in that version.

[@j0n.p]

Don't, he's a monster.

[@mikemoyercell]

Amazing how unfair and rigged it was. No way should this have been allowed to happen. I don't think it would go this way today.

[@lynnrodriguez1987]

If it was rigged, the Democrats rigged it against themselves, by approving the Butterfly Ballot. Then again, they probably came to the rightful conclusion, that anybody with an IQ above 60, would easily be able to navigate that not very difficult ballot.

[@marcuscochran806]

Several State Attorneys changed their own laws in 2020 at the 11th hour to ensure a Democrat victory… PA is a great example of moving the goal post back 10 Yards to produce the desired result

[@aadarshbalireddy2939]

With how trump tried to pass fake electors in 2020, and asked his republican allies to "find more votes", it absolutely could. The GA election board especially has been stacked with crazy election deniers since the last election

[@RofhiwaRamabulana]

Gerrymandering and vote intimidations

[@DavidMorseMusic]

​@@marcuscochran806prove it in court, crybaby

[@bherber]

So basically we will never know who actually won in 2000

[@timopint1125]

we only know by votes

[@sssoundslike2259]

Just like in 2020

[@tylerkochman1007]

@@sssoundslike22592020 saw multiple recounts and audits to placate Trump. 😂😂😂😂 he lost them all

[@RicheeBe]

We know , Florida Jeb bush and now watching the Republicans try to steal elections. We know

[@JoshuaNJones]

It was shown that bush would have won even if the recount would have been allowed to finish. This was done by nonpartisan independent news agencies in flordia who reached that conclusion by actually recounting the votes. Chance are that bush would have won by an even larger margin if it weren't for the major news networks who originally called flordia for gore before all the polls in flordia were even closed. When they called it for gore the polls still had an hour to go in the heavily republican panhandle portion of the state. I guarantee you when the major networks called flordia for gore people who were in line to vote in the panhandle got out of line and went home thinking that it was pointless since gore had already won the state.

[@snoski]

This was a great doc! Cool of CNN to allow us KZbin plebes to view it!

[@candidaprout560]

And former president Bush and former vice President Mr Gore acted respecting the law and eachother and the country. And that's as it should be.

[@Dem0stumblers6726]

Wow you've got to be kidding!

[@candidaprout560]

@@Dem0stumblers6726 why?

[@candidaprout560]

I am not. People who respect their oath to the Country the Constitution the People acts in the way they did. Thinking about the country and not about themselves.

[@hemihead6645]

Al Gore won that election. It was later proven by the courts.

[@timpryor5396]

Absurd. The hacks on the SC violated their oaths to the Constitution and stole the election. Utterly lawless. Is that how it should be?

[@timmartin7664]

I remember like this was yesterday although I was too young to fully comprehend who serious this was.

[@Windds]

Damn people standing on the steps but they didn’t invade or trying to hurt people.

[@theweeklynewsexplosion5358]

exactly they weren't right wing nationalists they genuinely wanted to see a fair process

[@American-DEM]

@@theweeklynewsexplosion5358 Which, unfortunately, they did not see.

[@DetroitSunGod]

@@theweeklynewsexplosion5358nothing wrong with being a right wing nationalist

[@BeeKay5150]

I think everyone forgets...had Gore won his home state of Tennessee, none of this may have happened.

[@John-ct9zs]

It was very confusing why America didn't reward Bill Clinton's VP with the White House considering how well the country was doing in 2000. Usually that's what happens. But if Gore had taken Office, he would have been blamed non-stop for the 9/11 attacks. Republicans blamed Bill Clinton for 9/11 so obviously they would have said it's because a weak, liberal soy boy pansy Democratic President was in the White House is why the terrorists decided to attack. This would have led to Gore being a one term President while Republicans made their case for a manly macho guy to take over.

[@justinp5661]

Yep. But the thing is we know him. We celebrated when we threw his dad out of office.

[@John-ct9zs]

Gore would have been a one term President, because the 9/11 attacks were going to happen no matter what. Republicans already blamed Bill Clinton for the 9/11 attacks, saying it was a weak, liberal soy boy Democrat President that couldn't get Osama Bin Laden is why manly macho President GWBush had to put with getting attacked. So if they pushed that stupid story, imagine if the attacks happened under President Gore? It would have been non-stop 24-7 blaming Gore, calling him a weak, soy boy liberal pro-gay tree hugger, etc, etc. George W. Bush would have likely won in 2004 in that version.

[@John-ct9zs]

The real reason is that in the late 90s/early 2000s, Fox News went hard against Bill Clinton and Al Gore, despite an amazing economy and peace and prosperity. Fox News wasn't around in 1992 and 1996 when Clinton got elected, but it was in it's prime in 2000 when Al Gore ran.

[@miao.6685]

@@justinp5661was Bush better? Like seriously.

[@jaypritchett6846]

I was *10* when this happened, but I was *glued* to the screen with my parents!!!

[@jll9916]

In the end, Florida thought Bush was better equipped to fight Manbearpig

[@procrastination2204]

I was only four months old and I'm still mad about it

[@monicarenee7949]

Imagine being old enough to see the before and after from this. Sorry you were born into this side of America.

[@obwan398]

I was 19 and knew exactly how evil Bush was psychically I've always been able to detect evil and darkness in everything...I say this because I watched my whole life my initial thoughts about people and things turn out to be true when time goes on and things are in full bloom later... I was waiting for 9:11 I've sensed something really bad was about to happen I actually thought that they were going to have an anthrax terror attack and kill all of us at burning Man I was out at that party and having a really weird bad scary big feeling about something really big and deadly looming and a week later 911 right when I got back home I didn't know anything about the twin towers or anything about what had happened because I had been on the highway all day with out the radio on just listening to my own music we hadn't talked to anybody so I was in the car for like 8 hours and I found out about it in the evening and somebody said terrorists blew up the trade towers.... And I said it wasn't terrorist it was Bush and Cheney and the guy just looked shocked and didn't have anything to say.. the guy was someone that I had never seen before a old man a Canadian guy at the gas station.... Back then journalist and just everybody had so much more integrity and that we never would have had all this lying and conspiracy garbage and maga election denying this whole Republican assault against the concept of Truth and facts is all Trump and it's killing America it's so stupid it's making really stupid dangerous stupid stupid stupid people who have always totally despised and they've always been full of s*** Christian Conservative Republican idiots but now that they don't have to tell the truth Trump like unlocked lying and now how do we get it back in the box this is so unexpectedly ridiculously annoying and it seems funny but it's not f*** lying we need to outlaw lying and deport these magical Republicans to North Korea until they can apologize sincerely on a polygraph machine or just stay there that's a fitting place for them if they want to b**** about their government and talk s*** and let him have something to talk s*** about

[@Dj5_DC]

😆

[@John-ct9zs]

Gore would have been a one term President, because the 9/11 attacks were going to happen no matter what. Republicans already blamed Bill Clinton for the 9/11 attacks, saying it was a weak, liberal soy boy Democrat President that couldn't get Osama Bin Laden is why manly macho President GWBush had to put with getting attacked. So if they pushed that stupid story, imagine if the attacks happened under President Gore? It would have been non-stop 24-7 blaming Gore, calling him a weak, soy boy liberal pro-gay tree hugger, etc, etc. George W. Bush would have likely won in 2004 in that version.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Blame gire fir being a bad campaigner

[@CheBellaTelevisione]

I remember watching this on tv, crazy that this footage looks vintage now

[@gottfriedhub]

90’s tech in a new millennium 😂

[@TradeIQ_Profits]

Why is gore not running..he is 75

[@ShortPerson594]

he's was that young? Damn, hes younger than biden and trump

[@mws755]

Gore just walked away and fell off the earth

[@abubekerkedir96]

He needs to stand up after Joe Biden stepped down yesterday. Kamala Harris is not fit to defeat Trump.

[@John-ct9zs]

I always did wonder why Gore didn't go for it again. Richard Nixon lost a close election to JFK in 1960 but tried again in 1968 and won. I figure if Obama wasn't around in 2008 Gore might have ran, but with someone with as much star power as Obama, it's like screw it.

[@MLGpuppetlord]

@@abubekerkedir96 This aged badly. Especially after Walz entered the ring. (This could also age badly if Trump wins if we're being honest)

[@CorekBleedingHollow]

I was a young kid in 2000. Had no idea that election played out like that.

[@samarmisra4922]

I was 16 and no idea who was even running as my sophomore year in high school was most stressful ever and took over my life.

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

It should be one man, one vote, whoever gets the most vote wins. Please explain why it isn’t this way?

[@Algore-rk8mh]

Because the founding fathers didnt like democracy. They wanted a republic to restrain majority rules. Its kims of like having 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner. Personally when it comes to election 2000. I think Gore won. And suck he was not elected he would have continued his bosses surplus. In 2016 im glad we had the electorla college cause hillary for sure did not deserve to win.

[@gamestar70]

United "States" of America not United "People" of America

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

@@gamestar70 It still doesn’t answer my question as to why it isn’t one man, one vote? What’s the reason.

[@gamestar70]

@@FieldMarshalRommel23 States decides the President not the people. People only select the State's Representors. So that States with Large population may not drown the voices of States with small population with diametrically opposite set of policy preference.

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

@@gamestar70 I see, thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.

[@Jesse-gx7mn]

How much different would this country have been had Gore been elected, I still feel Gore's pain to this day, I never got over it completely!

[@MichoelDobry]

Let's face it, and I speak as someone who voted for Gore-Lieberman: the reason that Gore lost was not because of a butterfly ballot and hanging chads in Florida, it was because he couldn't carry his home state of Tennessee. If he had, he would have been elected with 278 electoral votes and Florida would have been an afterthought...

[@D.D.-ud9zt]

Tennessee was the deep south politically at the time (maybe still is, haven't been there in years), its no surprise he didn't carry it.

[@umcanes2005]

@MichoelDobry ...or if Gore had won New Hampshire, he would have won 271 to 267. He lost NH by only 2,757 votes. I think that his campaign manager failed him by not investing enough in NH, and his election team in general really should have sussed out the ballot design in Palm Beach County well before the election. I am flabbergasted that Democrats actually approved that ballot design.

[@nobodysperfect06]

​A lot of people think that a huge mistake by Al Gore's part was distancing himself from Bill Clinton throughout his whole campaign, in the whole election, Bill Clinton was kept on the sidelines throughout the whole election. Bill Clinton could have easily helped Al Gore when key southern states which would have meant that Florida would not have mattered ​@@umcanes2005

[@alexanderleslie7978]

There is always error in any process. This election was too close to where the error played a factor.

[@EllieOscar]

Oh gosh, if this happens between Trump and Harris the worlds gonna end

[@River.channel]

No, it will not this time

[@Idris-nt8rc]

Imagine what’s about to happen in 2025. Get ready America

[@hangten1904]

This is a good example how bad graphic design can affect the world.

[@FrankluzilliamsWilliams]

The worst mess in my life, 2020 came too come to this mess

[@marcusbrown188]

Biden won 7 million more votes so it’s a clear winner

[@theweeklynewsexplosion5358]

Luckily Biden won by 8 million votes not half a million so it was much easier to decide. It was scary how long it took for them to count the votes though.

[@American-DEM]

I think the 2000 election was a "logical" mess and 2020's as the idiotic mess. They both under some-what different circumstances.

[@louieboyd2791]

Republicans all be like state rights number #1, the court proceedings at Florida Supreme Court, 'No we want federal to decide!'

[@sssoundslike2259]

@louieboyd2791 And Democrats deny election results when they lose and call Republicans election deniers and anti-democratic when Republicans do it.

[@creynolds588]

Except that it wasn't a state issue dumbo.

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

That's politics. Don't act like Dems wouldn't do the same thing. Just look at how they abuse the justice system.

[@Akiraspin]

Uhhh because it's the president of the united fucking states of America? It's not a single state, it's a federal office dipshit lmfao.

[@davidmata9952]

West Virginia (a blue state up to the point) and New Hampshire were why Gore lost, not Florida. If he wins one of those two states, he would have won the election.

[@johnt8441]

Extremely well analyzed, eight votes that should have been in Gore's hip pocket and were not would have rendered Florida meaningless.

[@kreiner1]

The sad thing this last election told that one, bitch sit down and hold my beer. I am hopeful we will see the end at some point.

[@ricardokessler4186]

He should have won his home state of Tennessee and bills home state of Arkansas.

[@davidmata9952]

@@ricardokessler4186 - New Hampshire isn't as conservative as Tennessee and should have been easier for him to win.

[@ricardokessler4186]

@@davidmata9952 Tennessee was very moderate at the time and bill was popular there. Al gore and his father were both senators from there.

[@eddie6198]

Had i been old enough at the time to vote Id most assuredly voted for Gore, however, the "Sore/Loserman" signs people had were hilarious.

[@D.D.-ud9zt]

Only time I voted Democrat. It was clear George W was a loser. What I didn't know was how evil he was.

[@mosestekper7659]

America electoral system and judiciary is too politicised. How can someone on the campaign of a contender be the one incharge of administration of the elections. There should be an independent electoral administration body.

[@csnowutube]

I remember the "hanging chads"

[@jeffzest8393]

The prural of chad is chad.

[@johnadams1281]

wrong@@jeffzest8393

[@monicarenee7949]

@@jeffzest8393 well that’s the way it was said back then so that’s why it’s in quotes

[@monicarenee7949]

@@jeffzest8393 even in this video they say chads, not sure where you get it from that its plural is chad

[@jeffzest8393]

Just because chads used here does not mean correct. From the Washington Post: Loop Fan David Hart of Miami wrote to correct. “I hope that I am not terribly anal to tell you that the plural of chad is chad. CHAD stands for ‘card hole accumulated debris’.” Would link but YT does not allow. Watch the movie "Recount." Great movie with outstanding commentary by the director and writer. The movie has a scene where Ron Klan and Michael Worley are discussing the recount where Worely say chads, and he is corrected by Klan saying the plural of chad is chad. Worely raises voices and says something about just shows how the whole mess is fucked up. Klan says "anyone tell you that you say fuck a lot." @@monicarenee7949

[@amaldrew3830]

Al Gore would be a perfect candidates for 2028 election. Maybe just 1 term is enough because it would be 80 years if he won.

[@samarmisra4922]

Funny how President Carter who is 100 run for a 2nd term and Gore runs in 2032 after Carter serving his final term in office over 100 lol. Love them both

[@Sulla2300]

I thought Gore’s quote was “you don’t have to get huffy”?

[@MatchaCocoaDog]

This looks mild compared to 2020!

[@CoolEdo]

Tbh this was worse than 2020

[@Jgp4xzdmqnmil]

No jan 6th.

[@jamesmukuria4673]

@@CoolEdo No, this was not! It's 2016 election for God's sake.

[@teenoneofyabusiness1424]

​@@jamesmukuria4673another L for dems 😂😂😂

[@bmajor5424]

Now we all know jeb stole that election for his brother

[@sssoundslike2259]

So you’re an election denier?

[@lynnrodriguez1987]

Jeb isn't smart enough to be able to do that.

[@halbud]

I heard romours that he loaded a shjp full of ballots for Bush and had them thrown into the ocean !!

[@mws755]

yes

[@silentwitness4843]

Out of all the states for this to occur... It's the presidential candidates brother in place as governor.

[@vichitrvongkiattikachorn9347]

On butterfly ballots: why were they designed in such way from the beginning, then?

[@juniorrok1]

They should make a movie about this

[@TheAdmiraloftheFleet]

Recount - HBO - Kevin Spacey ✅✅

[@shivuu__]

This is best explained in movie. "vice"

[@johngaudet7363]

The biggest problem I see with US elections then (and perhaps even to this day) is that state representatives (such as Katherine Harris) are in charge of the counts and the insane degrees of partisanship at play during elections. INCREDIBLE conflicts of interest. Each state should have their own non-partisan elections associations to run clean and unbiased elections (with easy to understand ballots I will add). That's one thing we have in Canada that I'm proud of

[@AudreyAlexander-ui9js]

Someone in the federal courts sent papers out on an email fast

[@AMERICANPATRIOT123]

Still thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

[@jasonburdette6921]

The First Election I voted in. Was 21 years old

[@kanereeves4866]

As a Brit who's just got into US politics, found this a really interesting doc. Must of been an insane time in the states!

[@lindsey7951]

It was but it's even more insane now.

[@RobertKennedy239]

Please... Learn from history, Americans...

[@jaygibson5057]

"If it looks rigged, it's rigged." Stacey Abrams

[@roxannemoser]

I'm an Independent and that year I didn't vote. Tipper Gore was a scourge and Bush's only saving grace was Dick Cheney. 2024 will probably be a repeat. The two front runners are both too old. I won't vote.

[@Ken-Mojo-Dojo]

Stacey Abrams is the worst person to talk about anything lmao

[@theweeklynewsexplosion5358]

@@roxannemoser not voting is a vote against democracy

[@theweeklynewsexplosion5358]

@@Ken-Mojo-Dojo she ran against the guy who was controlling the election in Georgia, if that's not corrupt idk what is

[@miao.6685]

@@roxannemoserso the solution is to sit out and let other people have the say to choose your future? Interesting.

[@mahdirf9833]

Without Bush v Gore there wouldn't be a dobbs decision.

[@yannlandry9242]

40:30 THERE is your problem! Gore won the popular vote. THERE WAS MORE PEOPLE THAT WANTED HIM THAN PROPLE THAT WANTED BUSH! To hell with your stupid electoral votes, granting more importance to states with more voters, a TRUE democracy will elect the president the people want! If more people vote for someone, then that someone should be the president, PERIOD!

[@triuneicthus3524]

Except we're not a direct democracy. And now that Trump destroyed Harris, won the popular vote by over 2.5 million, and the country is clearly tired of leftist bullshit and took a strong turn to the center-right, do you agree?

[@deltaop1reload]

Would love to exist in a timeline where Gore won. It definitely wouldn't be as hot a mess as this one.

[@RicheeBe]

Wow Florida was blue

[@josephdyson3737]

19:40 is the most telling - Baker “we would’ve lost [if it had remained at state level” no all that would’ve happened is the recount would have happened and would not have been stopped. Why so terrified unless he knew the recount would have gone against Bush?

[@danielkingery2894]

Do you remember ANY of the controversy playing out on NATIONAL TV? The Dems were freaked the fuck out by 'hanging Chad's, and "dimpled chads" hoping to find more Gore Votes....

[@JXY2019]

Why were they only going to recount the 3 major democrat counties?

[@jameshacker8808]

@@JXY2019the Florida Supreme Court ordered a statewide recount no ?

[@Quinton249]

​@jameshacker8808, if I remember correctly, the democrats only wanted to recount certain counties instead of the entire state.

[@ASwagPecan]

Shows what a critical position Secretary of State is which many often overlook when going to the polls.

[@CalvinTennessee]

Gore couldn’t even win his home state of Tennessee. That should tell you everything you need to know about Gore. If he had won Tennessee, Florida would have never come into play.

[@jimmycorbett4611]

Al Gore and his team made several ENORMOUS mistakes. First one was him conceding so quickly. Second was them agreeing to the butterfly ballot and signing off on it. Third was only initially recounting the votes in 4 democratic counties. If they would have just made smarter decisions all around, Gore just might have won if a full recount was done and it would have shown Gore the winner. In the end Bush beat Gore by an official 537 votes. In the end either way, if all the votes were recounted, it’s my opinion, that neither party would have won by more than 100-200 votes, be it Bush or Gore. But as the final words of this program say, we’ll never know.

[@samarmisra4922]

What would have happened in 2000 if there was a 4-4 vote count in Supreme Court?

[@pastorbrightamegazo9231]

Great insight!

[@dougr8646]

Bro imagine if kamala Trump came down to something like this

[@PamelaYQ1121]

That’s why the electoral college should be gone. Popular vote should win.

[@a.ghostwriter]

Then why even have separate states or a 10th Amendment?

[@Korijenkins1414]

@@a.ghostwriter Arguing that popular vote shouldn't matter more than the electoral college is a bold and dumb position to take.

[@a.ghostwriter]

​@@Korijenkins1414How so? Is it that "dumb" or "bold" to say there should be a system based on federalism to protect the influence of states like WY, AK, VT, and DE?

[@tobyrucker1787]

It's total idiocy. The Constitution never gave an individual citizen the right to vote for president at all, let alone leaving the decision up to mob rule in the popular vote. This is a country of United STATES and the States elect the president of the country. Leaving it up to a popular vote would have only highly populated areas being catered and campaigned to, as opposed to having a candidate that has to campaign and reach voters all the way across the entire country. The electoral college is an ingenious design and just because it sometimes means your side loses that's no reason to throw it out.

[@fanniinnanetguy653]

​@@tobyrucker1787 Instead of candidates campaigning across the country, we have few battle ground states that determine the result. Would've been better ifit was actually focused on popilated areas where all the voters are.

[@Unclenedi]

The “Gore would have saved us” comments are so precious. As if the guy isn’t part of the same disgusting, elitist power structure. Does no one remember he initially rode into the WH alongside Clinton? Cus THAT guy never started any wars, or contributed to any international strife or tyrant 🙄 So foolish, treating these things like they’re a football game and your team won or lost.

[@Deerjason]

Say what you want about Clinton, but he actually was very good at making a budget; we finally were debt neutral under Clinton. Unlike Biden and Trump who both borrows trillions of dollars that will eventually catch up to us.

[@uhoh8115]

Iraq was pretty much all Cheney though, so I doubt that war would have happened under Gore

[@jasoncook7378]

We missed out not having Gore as president.

[@แม้ว-ถ7ฬ]

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[@Sarah-j3r1h]

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[@cathyfred9575]

Beautifully put

[@anamoly.]

EXACTLY

[@AudreyAlexander-ui9js]

Did Joyce Meyers work for the election office

[@alsandoukb]

Im a Trump supporter but how I wish Gore would of won. I think things would of been so much different. No war in the Middle East. I think if Gore would've picked a running mate from Florida he would of won. People say Trump is the worst president but I believe George W was the worst president.

[@D.D.-ud9zt]

Totally agree. A lot of us Republicans who are old enough feel that way. We don't want the neocons back.

[@jamesmukuria6669]

@alsandoukb I disagree with your opinion. My opinion is that George w bush was always better president than Trump any day. And it turns out you were wrong about George W Bush, and get over it at once!

[@samarmisra4922]

Trump is one of the worst and surely Andrew Johnson or Woodrow Wilson may be worse?

[@joshuabates7424]

Every single time that the popular vote is not followed the USA loses. The world would be a different place if Al Gore would have been president. :(

[@samarmisra4922]

It's not like Gore would have always been the President as USA has two term limit and Trump would have still come afterwards.

[@joshuabates7424]

@@samarmisra4922 trump is a felon. Gore would have been a great president and we almost certainly would not have invaded Iraq.

[@Forevermally]

I remember being a freshman in high school when this happened… the next year 9-11!

[@learningvideosbynikhil8308]

So so so so tight! Both candidates were great(I wasn’t born in 2000 though) and are still are now(dubya has a library at my school and al gore talks very well)

[@Nothinglefttosay]

Gore WON legitimately…

[@F0rsaken123-cm4gj]

So did Trump in 2020 .

[@fireison8312]

​@@F0rsaken123-cm4gjexactly

[@jeffzest8393]

@@F0rsaken123-cm4gj Zero evidence.

[@yungrom427]

@@jeffzest8393Plenty of evidence why do you think he doesn’t want the trial to move forward, I’m sure you’re smart enough to put 2 and 2 together.

[@jeffzest8393]

@@yungrom427 Zero evidence Trump won in 2020.

[@crazyneedstostop]

I love Al Gore to this day... Respect

[@samarmisra4922]

I remember my dear mom who still alive in india this moment and my dear paternal grandfather was alive few months after his surgery.

[@martinspekkie]

1:13 could it happen again Trump: hold my beer

[@rayspetant]

35:54 Ted Olson is featured. His Wife Barbara Olson was on the plane that crashed into the pentagon on September 11th 2021. She had just finished a cspan appearance the day before and was set to go on "Politically incorrect"

[@svjim1]

Each side believes what it wants to believe. They can't handle truth anymore.

[@jefferysims5676]

Imagine if this would have happened in 2020 with Trump

[@FirstnameSurname738]

I do like that Democrats still think about this election. On of American's biggest mistakes as a country that we well never recover from

[@2007NissanAltima]

Country got ruined due to this decision

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

I wish Gore was running in 2024.

[@justinp5661]

You like boring robots?

[@stuco]

Can't finish without a word from Nick Baldick.

[@cr082080]

Stand By: Bush is calling Florida to throw away Gore votes.

[@แม้ว-ถ7ฬ]

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[@pauls6677]

Haven’t heard much from Al since 2001

[@Xyy2387]

The sim went nuts when it hit y2k

[@rylivingston6941]

Weird, Bush & Trump sound a lot alike …

[@CWYMAN77]

I voted for Bush twice. Both mistakes.

[@Ryanscoolness]

Y2K brought us George and his brain damaged leadership.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi adapted his book “The Prosecution of GW Bush for Murder” into a well done documentary “The Prosecution of an American President”

[@ajmage5319]

Well at least 4 years later that brain damaged Bush was voted out of office, right? Oh.. hang on..

[@Judyhopps-1iq]

this was the best day for sandy cheeks when she found out george w bush won the 2000s election

[@AliexFolgueira]

Democrats elections deniars who would have thought lol

[@AudreyAlexander-ui9js]

Let's make sure it don't happen again

[@jakethecarsandreactorvideo9409]

I was just a baby when that happened

[@ErnestLauzon]

Bush lost against AL Gore.

[@AdrianSmith-ds6yv]

Would 9/11 happened with Gore

[@coldplayfan6070]

So if the world had an alternate timeline where Gore was the US President, we probably coulda had Obama a bit later than 2008, and Trump much, much later than 2016.

[@JXY2019]

We would’ve never had either. Gore would’ve been president during the recession so we probably would’ve got president John McCain

[@LucaMatoke]

It'd be Gore 2000-08, McCain 2008-16 and Obama 2016-24. Then Biden/Trump 2024-. Just my thoughts.

[@johnhollow.]

@@LucaMatoke Probably Trump in 2024.

[@monicarenee7949]

@@LucaMatoke I think Trump may have never happened, only because his decision to run seemed to come directly from being embarrassed by Obama. But it’s hard to say if any of these people would have followed Gore since even Obama was a direct reaction to Bush fumbling America. Maybe McCain would have done a better job and we could have still had republican presidents following that. It’s definitely a butterfly effect type of situation.

[@james1861]

​@LucaMatoke I dont think Trump would have been president in this alternate timeline. Each president switch is due to the voters wanting something different, it seems. Bill Clinton was president was there for 8 years. Then Bush for 8. Bush was a disaster so Obama gets 8 years. Change is a big thing they seem to say they're fighting for. And trump got in for 4 years as a change from the Obama era. Americans were tired of Trump's antics and his response to covid so Biden gets in for 4 years. If Al Gore had won in 2000. The parties would switch. McCain would probably had won after Gore. Then Obama gets elected afterwards. It's so mind blowing to think about it.

[@davidg837]

The year when the draft dodger beat the veteran