re: It's 2000; What are you arguing here regarding who won Florida?

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I still have no idea how that election was so damn close. Sure in hindsight, Bush wasn't what we were promised during his campaigned and he largely turned into a big government neocon, but at the time there were few objectively good reasons to vote for Gore. Bush was the overwhelmingly logical choice at the time, far moreso than what we saw in 2004, 2008 or 2012.

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Ah you kids... On paper Gore was by far the better choice. Former congressman, senator Vice President. OTOH Bush had never held a job in his entire life besides being governor. And I'm not joking. He was a complete frick up with no history of employment in the 70s. In the 80s he started up businesses which all failed. Then the group who owned the Rangers needed to build a stadium and needed some pull to acquire property by eminent domaine, Bush was asked to come on board and was given a percentage of the team. His dad was president.

Then Bush ran for governor in Texas, Jeb ran in Florida. George won and Jeb lost. Had Jeb won and not been set back a term, Jeb would have been the one running in 2000.

Gore was a god awful campaigner and had had a falling out with Clinton. Gore pushed the very popular Clinton away.

So America was left with two losers and the final results, with Gore beating Bush by 500,000 votes but losing the electoral by 1 state in a state of 6 million with 537 vote difference shows you America was like WTF? Why these two clowns?