Posted: 1/30/2017 4:04:05 PM EDT
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I was pretty young and that time and he seemed to give it a good run. For those who were around and followed the election what were the big issues? Why did he do so well? Where did Bush pull ahead?
It's hard for me to remember a time before 9/11. 
Always love seeing the Arfcommers perspective. edit: spelling |
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The economy had a good run under Clinton. If Bill had kept his pants zipped and hadn't pushed for lots of gun control, Gore would have been President. Gore was just riding Clinton's perceived coat-tails though. Nothing great about him. Very stiff and boring. The economy had a perceived good run, but the smoke and mirrors of the dot com boom had dried up by 1998-99, (the irrational exuberance, there was nothing behind 90% of the count Melanie's that popped up, and manufacturing, like primary metals was hurting because of all the special treatment clinton was giving the chicoms and Indonesians) and the US had begun to Slide into a recession, that persisted until early 2001. And then it got Knocked back down in September due to the jihadist attacks and Enron scandals. AlGore was another empty suit who was priveledged to be born into a wealthy political family. |
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The economy had a good run under Clinton. If Bill had kept his pants zipped and hadn't pushed for lots of gun control, Gore would have been President. Gore was just riding Clinton's perceived coat-tails though. Nothing great about him. Very stiff and boring. This. Slick Willy's pecker fucked Gore along with all those other chicks |
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We knew what a lying scumbag he really was. Quoted:
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He couldn't even carry his home state of Tn. We knew what a lying scumbag he really was. Gore thought being anti-gun was a winning strategy. It cost him his home state, which cost him the election. Even Mondale won his home state in that bloodbath. Gore also came across as a moron in the debates. The bizarre stalking of Bush during the debates was made fun of by everyone, the left and the right. |
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I recall watching the Debates. Bush was sharp and articulate next the unending rambling coming from Gore... if that tells you anything. Gore was just like FHRC, only less effective and much more boring. He was an elitist that knew better then you how you should live your life. Bush was a bit of a corpratist, but that didn't bother me much at the time. I never liked Cheney, but I can't even remember who Gore's running mate was.
Bush talked right to people in simple terms, and he was very likeable guy. That was the first election I got to vote in. I pulled the lever for Bush. The recount in Florida was a total cluster fuck, I was worried we would see that again in the last election, but Trump decimated Hillary. |
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Quoted: I was pretty young and that time and he seemed to give it a good run. For thise who were around and followed the election what were the big issues? Why did he do so well? Where did Bush pull ahead?
It's hard for me to remember a time before 9/11.
Always love seeing the Arfcommers perspective. Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. |
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Gore thought being anti-gun was a winning strategy. It cost him his home state, which cost him the election. Even Mondale won his home state in that bloodbath. Gore also came across as a moron in the debates. The bizarre stalking of Bush during the debates was made fun of by everyone, the left and the right. Gore was a radical moonbat before the country was stupid enough to elect radical moonbats. I don't think the country was aware of the extent of this until he ran for president. |
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When Al and Tipper were pro life conservative democrats they mounted an assault on the record/music industry. Everyone knew that playing 'Stairway to Heaven' made kids sell their kids to Satan. Played backwards supposedly.
The Y2K panic made a bunch of tech companies a bunch of money, that's why the Clinton economy seemed so nice. The Florida 'hanging chad' fiasco was caused by the south FLA butterfly ballots, Kathrine Harris and the coincident of JEB! being GWB's younger brother. And pretty much all of those that were posted above. |
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Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. LOL! No. Bush still won. and again. |
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Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. Quoted:
Quoted: I was pretty young and that time and he seemed to give it a good run. For thise who were around and followed the election what were the big issues? Why did he do so well? Where did Bush pull ahead?
It's hard for me to remember a time before 9/11.
Always love seeing the Arfcommers perspective. Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. Nope, Bush won in the election and would have won the recount. IIRC, only in only one of the tested recount scenarios saw a Gore win. If the Supreme Court had allowed the recount to continue as requested, nothing would have changed. There was not enough time to conduct a legal recount of all counties, but the USSC should have let them try. That second vote has allowed a bunch of idiots claim Bush was selected, not elected. In reality, Gore's attempt to steal the election was thwarted. |
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Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. absolutely false. He lost, every time it was recounted. And by the way.....do you even want to talk about all the military ballots Gore had thrown out? Fuck that un-American prick. |
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Gore was a radical moonbat before the country was stupid enough to elect radical moonbats. I don't think the country was aware of the extent of this until he ran for president. Quoted:
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Gore thought being anti-gun was a winning strategy. It cost him his home state, which cost him the election. Even Mondale won his home state in that bloodbath. Gore also came across as a moron in the debates. The bizarre stalking of Bush during the debates was made fun of by everyone, the left and the right. Gore was a radical moonbat before the country was stupid enough to elect radical moonbats. I don't think the country was aware of the extent of this until he ran for president. Agreed. The press had built him up as a genius debater who would mop the floor with Bush. Then the debates exposed that lie. The condescending attitude didn't help him at all. Then it came out that he had a lower GPA than Bush, the picture of him in VietNam with his rifle pointed at his own head, and the rumor he had bodyguards in VietNam. I don't believe these items were as widely known, but it showed him as a small, little man. |
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Quoted: Bush pulled ahead in the narrow recount. If Gore had demanded that all Florida counties be recounted (which he didn't do) and had the conservative Supreme Court allowed it (the court that stopped the limited recount), Gore would've won. The post election AP recount of all Florida ballots demonstrated that Gore won Florida - but not by enough in the few counties he was demanding a recount in. LOL! No. Bush still won. and again. Yes, that's what I said. From your links: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media-jan-june01-recount_04-03/ ...the Herald pointed to one scenario under which Gore could have scored a narrow victory — a fresh recount in all counties using the most generous standards.
In their reports, the newspapers assumed counts already completed when the court-ordered recount was stopped would have been included in any official count. Thus, they allowed numbers from seven counties — Palm Beach, Volusia, Broward, Hamilton, Manatee, Escambia and Madison — to stand, but applied the most inclusive standards to votes in the rest of the state. If those numbers did not stand, the Herald reported, a more generous hypothetical revisited recount would have scored the White House for Gore — but with only a 393-vote margin. http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2008/05/25/reminder-bush-won-florida-recounts-conducted-media But this study also found that if there had been a re-count of all disqualified ballots statewide it might have produced a narrow Gore victory. The recount strategy Gore pursued, even if allowed to continue by the Supreme Court, would not have produced enough votes for Gore. Only a state-wide recount - which was never pursued by Gore - would have pushed Gore over the top. |
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I could not bring myself to vote for Gore. Nothing against him personally, but he represented an extension of the Clinton presidency, and I hated Slick Willie with a passion. I ended up voting for Dubya.
Mind you, this is coming from someone on the left side of the political spectrum. I thought Bill Clinton was far too "centrist." |
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He couldn't even carry his home state of Tn. I made liberals' heads explode locally when I kept bringing that up........... 
For the OP: Gore had actually never lost an election in TN prior top his losing to Bush. He was SO strong in TN, Clinton didn't even campaign here when they went head-to-head during Slick's first campaign. Further blowing libtard minds was that Gore used to have an "A" rating from the NRA. It was only after he went "national" with Clinton that he felt he needed to be Fienstein, Jr or some shit. He also got caught red handed lying at a big union rally for him. He claimed that his mother (silver spoon bitch) used to sing him lullabyes that were union songs. He even sang a couple lines from one or two of them. Problem was, both songs were written when he was like 11 or 12 years old.......... 
Much like Clinton's claim to have been a NRA Life Member, they were both completely full of fucking shit. Here's another good tidbit: Gore, SR was a long term senator from TN as well. Daddy Gore voted AGAINST the 1964 Civil Rights Act, something the libtards were quick to dismiss........... |
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Bush spoke like a regular guy, Cheney spoke calmly.
Gore spoke like a robot, and liberman spoke like elmer fudd. Who do you want to run the country? a robot and a fudd ? Gore didn't want any part of Klinton campaigning for him, to avoid all his scandals. Which probably cost him some votes, but the voters were sick of all the Klinton scandals. |
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Anyone remember that one debate where one of his staff saw to it that he was covered in make-up to an extent that he looked like a different person? He looked creepier than all hell.
And how about his gaffe where he reminisced about his mother singing "look for the union label" to him as a little boy when she tucked him into bed. Turns out, the jingle hadn't been written until a time when he would have been about 20 years old. I remember Rush skewering him on his radio show with a satire skit over that one. |
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The economy had a good run under Clinton. If Bill had kept his pants zipped and hadn't pushed for lots of gun control, Gore would have been President. Gore was just riding Clinton's perceived coat-tails though. Nothing great about him. Very stiff and boring. Nailed it IMO. |