Whats up with the election with Bush and Al Gore, especially in Florida? Why was it so close?Did people love Bush back then? I heard people were tired of Al Gores "global warming" slickt
>>18347605There was tons of butthurt over the 2000 election. It was the first major outburst of the current divisive cultural partisanship and also created red states and blue states. Had 9/11 not happened one year later, all the shit going on right now would’ve happened way sooner.
>>18347605It was contentious because the governor's office of Florida was held by Bush's brother at the time, and some votes were suspended to be "counted later" that never were, along with the Supreme Court interrupting the final recount instead of letting it finish and declaring it as the final recount.
Al Gore was poster child of shitlib grifting. Still waiting for marthas vineyard to go under the ocean btw
>>18347641Who would Bush’s ‘04 opponent have been without 9/11?
>>18347696Irrelevant when you take into account that the news networks suppressed tens of thousands of Bush votes by declaring Florida for Gore before polls were closed in red panhandle counties. The eventual Bush victory margin is way smaller than it should have been.
>>18347605>especially in Florida? Why was it so close?Basically in a county full of elderly Jewish people where Democrats were expected to win that would have tipped the scales for the whole state, Bush won with Pat Buchanan receiving an anomalously large number of votes. Pat Buchanan was a Christian identitarian isolationist paleocon, basically the last kind of person Jews would ever vote for. This was attributed to the absolutely retarded "butterfly ballot' design that made it confusing and it's a safe assumption that most of the people who voted for Buchanan actually meant to vote for Gore, which Pat Buchanan himself actually agreed with.
>>18347751>check palm beach county results >it voted republican for 4 straight decades from '48 to '88>only in the 90's flipped to democrats>it gave Gore 62% of the vote, more than Clinton, and more than Kerry would receive 4 years later>Buchanan received a grand total of 3,411 votes thereSure that's enough to offset the official margin in Florida, but when you take >>18347748 into account you realize how ridiculous your whining is. Bush literally should have won by *more* than the official results gave him.
>>18347751>>18347760Oh and turns out Gore's 62% is not just higher than Clinton or Kerry, it was the highest Democrat vote share in the county since 1936 and has not been matched since. This is what you're complaining about.
bush had jeb rig it for him in florida, also people saw bush as a clean evangelical guy compared to sleazy clinton who got a blowjob in office
>>18347775Nobody cared about the BJ except for the furthest right culture warrior republicans of the time, Clinton's numbers went up and Republicans lost seats in the midterms around that time.
