re: Clinton shouldn't have been impeached either

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A seasoned President Gore would have won his first term......

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Well that is one opinion. Nobody will ever really know but Clinton’s policies were pretty popular in 2000 and Gore was getting credit for that and distancing himself from Clinton’s negative personal stuff and still lost. His approval went down the more he was in the public eye. Partly why he never ran for office again due to his own internal polling he had done in 2003 to consider running in 2004.
If Clinton steps aside or is impeached the Republicans would have kept investigating. Gore would have had to pardon him (piss off half the country) or not pardon him (piss off his base).
Everybody remembers how bush won Florida but Gore won New Mexico by like 300 votes and Iowa and Wisconsin by less than .3%.