Why are liberals so upset that Gore lost the election in 2000?

Answer 1

They do not like to loose. Also, they want power.

Answer 2

The Constitution was changed in the year 2000. Elections for President are not longer needed because Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia Selects the President every four years. If Scalia had selected Gore instead of Bush, a lot of Republicans would be furious!

Answer 3

Because he and Bush were tied on electoral votes (well, not tied, but close enough that whoever won Florida would win the Presidency). Instead of allowing Florida do a recount to make sure Bush had won (Bush was ahead by less than 2,000 votes, which is low enough to get a recount--and they weren't done counting absentee ballots) the Supreme Court just awarded Bush the Presidency because Florida has some effed up election laws (long story short--read the link for the details). Not to mention that it's just irritating that he won the popular vote but lost the election.

Or, to put it like a brain dead right wing extremist (and I mean extremist - I don't have issues with smart reps) "We're just mad cuz we lost!" Gotta love those sound bites! They make arguing so much easier cuz you don't need to explain the facts!

Answer 4

It is always an upset when the winner of the Electoral majority does not win the popular vote. In historical terms, it's known as a "Constitutional crisis", and has always been referred to in those terms in the previous examples. It was such a crisis when it happened in 1876 that Rutherford B. Hayes had to make painful concessions to the Dixiecrats (sadly, at the expense of voting rights for Southern blacks) and Right-wing Republicans (abruptly halting the Reconstruction, which has had a negative impact on the economy of the South ever since), and also was forced to not seek a second term.

As it turned out, Hayes was one of our better Presidents, but his term in office was still marred by his lack of a popular mandate, despite the concessions. Ironically, one of the three states where the electoral tallies were questioned was Florida. In Florida, official returns favored his opponent, Samuel Tilden, but election results in three Southern states including Florida were marked by fraud and threats of violence against Republican voters. One of the points of contention revolved around the design of ballots. At the time parties would print ballots or "tickets" to enable voters to support them in the open ballots. To aid illiterate voters the parties would print symbols on the tickets. However in this election many Democratic ballots were printed with the Republican symbol on them. The Republican-dominated state electoral commissions subsequently disallowed a sufficient number of Democratic votes to award their electoral votes to Hayes.

I should add that in 2000 and in 1876, the procedural rules as set out in the Constitution were not followed. The Constitution states in case of general election disputes: "the President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the (electoral) certificates, and the votes shall then be counted (by the combined House and Senate)." In 1876, the Republicans insisted that the (Republican) Senate should be in charge of counting the votes and not involve the (Democrat-controlled) House of Representatives. The Democrats wanted the House to count the votes but not the Senate.

Congress therefore passed an emergency law forming a 15-member Electoral Commission to settle the result. Five members came from each house of Congress, and they were joined by five members of the Supreme Court.

The majority party in each house named three members and the minority party two. As the Republicans controlled the Senate and the Democrats the House of Representatives, this yielded five Democratic and five Republican members of the Commission. Of the Supreme Court justices, two Republicans and two Democrats were chosen, with the fifth to be selected by these four.

The justices first selected a political independent, Justice David Davis, but he was elected to the Senate by Illinois' state legislature, forcing them to choose an alternate. The remaining justices were all Republicans so they selected Justice Joseph P. Bradley, who was considered the most impartial remaining member of the court.

In 2000, President Bush opted to take the matter directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the Senate and Congress altogether, even though (possibly because) both the House and Senate were under Republican control at the time.

Answer 5

Because Bush stole the vote in Florida, as Gore so subtly stated in "An Inconvenient Truth."

Answer 6

Its a conspiracy he actually won the votes were tampered with. Just like bush blew up the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. All these anti American libs should move to Iran and put on burkhas.

Answer 7

Please............get on with the current events and quit trying to save the sour milk spilled over 8 years ago.

Answer 8

Why do you ask, do think Bush is any better? I dread the thought of this incompetent having another two years.

Answer 9

Any patriotic American should be concerned about anything that takes away their most basic civil right and their only weapon against dictatorship. Election fraud takes that right away from us ALL. It may be YOUR VOTE that's gerrymandered next time. Get my drift, pilgrim?

Answer 10

because we ended up w/ Bush!!!! who rigged both of his election and managed to ruin the American name and economy in 7 yrs!