05-31-2016, 10:05 AM
Gore, the incumbent VP, inherits the President from a popular President in 2000 -- NOT!
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Dole and Dubya -- blue
Clinton and Dubya -- green (Florida disputed for a month... thus the light shade)
Clinton and Gore -- red
No state went from Dole to Gore.
Gore lost fully eleven states that Clinton had won four years earlier... and any one of them could have ensured that the Great Disaster would have not been President.
...we all know about Florida. But also, had Gore picked up Colorado (which went to Clinton in 1992) or Virginia (which would go to Obama in 2008) he would have won the Presidency.
Heck, maybe Gore would have been wiser to select Carl Levin (D-MI) as his VP; he might have done better, and George W. Bush would be forgotten by now. Maybe 9/11 would have never happened.
Dole and Dubya -- blue
Clinton and Dubya -- green (Florida disputed for a month... thus the light shade)
Clinton and Gore -- red
No state went from Dole to Gore.
Gore lost fully eleven states that Clinton had won four years earlier... and any one of them could have ensured that the Great Disaster would have not been President.
...we all know about Florida. But also, had Gore picked up Colorado (which went to Clinton in 1992) or Virginia (which would go to Obama in 2008) he would have won the Presidency.
Heck, maybe Gore would have been wiser to select Carl Levin (D-MI) as his VP; he might have done better, and George W. Bush would be forgotten by now. Maybe 9/11 would have never happened.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.