Bush vs gore - the 2000 election?

Question

how different doyou think things would be if gore had won the election? what do you think be diffrerent? do you think the USA would be in a better state if gore would hae won?

Answer 1

Interesting idea. I do not think we would be involved in the Iraq War, although 9/11 and the bombings on Afghanistan still probably would have occurred.

Answer 2

In 2000 what the U S Supreme Court did was rule that the Florida state court did not have jurisdiction to make rulings concerning the results of those elections where the candidates were running nationwide.
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PBS (the Public Broadcasting System) is anything but a conservative organization. Conservatives call it a liberal outfit and the liberals call it middle-of-the-road. That pretty much defines their usual slant on things.

The following are excerpts from an article posted on the pbs.org web site on April 3, 2001

"More than three months after Democrat Al Gore conceded the hotly contested 2000 election, an independent hand recount of Florida's ballots released today says he would have lost anyway, even if officials would have allowed the hand count he requested."

"In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today, both unquestionably liberal newspapers, reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" - ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through - to be counted."

The study, conducted by the accounting firm of BDO Seidman, counted over 60,000 votes in Florida's 67 counties, tabulating separate vote totals in several standard categories.

The next time a liberal tries to tell you that Gore really won in Florida, and that a recount would have proven it, tell them there WAS a recount, an independent recount by liberally oriented newspapers, and a national accounting firm, and Gore lost by an even wider margin.

Answer 3

To those who claim 9/11 would not have happened if Gore had won I have news for you. The planning, the dry runs, and the flying lessons took place while Clinton was still president. 9/11 was going to happen no matter who won the presidency in November 2000.

Answer 4

There's no saying for sure. Certainly, Gore did not seem so committed to expanding the power of the presidency, and might not have come through with the same sort of leadership after 9/11. We might have seen more muted responses - bombing campaigns in Afghanistan, rather than wars there and in Iraq; less draconian security measures at home, etc.

Whether that would have been better for the country, or resulted in additional successful attacks against it is mere speculation.

So, different? Yes. Better? Probably not - possibly worse.

Answer 5

If Gore had won, we'd still be playing the same B.S. games in Iraq that we were when Clinton was in office. The no-fly zones, lighting up missile launch sites etc. The big difference there is that the French, Germans and Russians would all be a lot wealthier! Would the U.S. be a better place? No way! More laws would have been broken, there would have been more constitutional violations, Osama would have struck more than once. Our economy would have completely tanked out.

Answer 6

Gore did win. If Bush had not been appointed 911 would not have happened as Gore would have continued Clinton's vigilant anti terrorism efforts and paid attention to the intelligence.

Answer 7

thats a good question that i think about too, but if you look at it, right after bush got elected, 9/11 happened and it wasn't just bush who wanted to go to war. Everyone wanted something to be done, and most of congress was totally on board. Anywayz, with al gore, when he lost, he binge ate like crazy and didn't shave, he looked like a mess. A man who can't handle defeat, or a man who handles it llike that, probably wouldn't be able to handle an attack on his country...

Answer 8

I really don't think Gore would have confronted the terrorists with any real effective consequences - and a continuation of policies which arguably culminated in the events of 9/11 would have been disastrous.

Answer 9

One certainty: They'd have never attacked without the weakling George Bush in office. They lay in wait until the dumb oaf came in, and then struck. Notice how that happened? Either that, or it was a fix, with Bush family friend Bin Laden paving the way for an open cash spigot for 8 years for Bushco. Take your pick.

Answer 10

As as different as night and day!!!The selection of Bush by the Supreme Court was a coup in a democracy. Now we're trying to export democracy to the Middle East... go figure!!!