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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox election The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the incumbent governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, won the election, defeating incumbent Vice President Al Gore. It was the fourth of five American presidential elections, and the first since 1888, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest U.S. presidential elections, with long-standing controversy about the result.[1][2][3][4] Gore conceded the election on December 13.

Incumbent President Bill Clinton was ineligible to run for a third term due to presidential term limits, and Gore, the most recent incumbent vice president to run for president, secured the Democratic nomination with relative ease, defeating former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley in the primaries. Bush was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and after a contentious primary battle with U.S. Senator John McCain and others, secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. Bush chose former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney as his running mate, while Gore chose U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.

Both major-party candidates focused primarily on domestic issues, such as the budget, tax relief, and reforms for federal social insurance programs, although foreign policy was not ignored. Due to President Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and subsequent impeachment, Gore avoided campaigning with Clinton. Republicans denounced Clinton's indiscretions, while Gore criticized Bush's lack of experience. On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that Bush had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a recount. A month-long series of legal battles led to the highly controversial 5–4 Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount.

The recount having been ended, Bush won Florida by 537 votes, a margin of 0.009%. The Florida recount and subsequent litigation resulted in major post-election controversy, and with speculative analysis suggesting that limited county-based recounts would likely have confirmed a Bush victory, whereas a statewide recount would likely have given the state to Gore.[5][6] Ultimately, Bush won 271 electoral votes, one vote more than the 270-to-win majority, despite Gore receiving 543,895 more votes (a margin of 0.52% of all votes cast).[7] Bush flipped 11 states that had voted Democratic in 1996: Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia. As of 2023, this remains the last time that a Republican carried New Hampshire in a presidential election. This is also the last time as of 2023 that the sitting vice president at the time of the election was the nominee of a major party.

Since the death of George H. W. Bush in 2018, this is the earliest presidential election in which all major-party candidates for President and Vice President are still alive.

Background

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The incumbent in 2000, Bill Clinton. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2001.

Article Two of the United States Constitution dictates that the President and Vice President of the United States must be natural-born citizens of the United States, at least 35 years old, and residents of the United States for a period of at least 14 years. Candidates for the presidency typically seek the nomination of one of the political parties, in which case each party devises a method (such as a primary election) to choose the candidate the party deems best suited to run for the position. Traditionally, the primary elections are indirect elections where voters cast ballots for a slate of party delegates pledged to a particular candidate. The party's delegates then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party's behalf. The general election in November is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of members of the Electoral College; these electors in turn directly elect the president and vice president.

President Bill Clinton, a Democrat and former Governor of Arkansas, was ineligible to seek reelection to a third term due to the Twenty-second Amendment; in accordance with SectionШаблон:Nbsp1 of the Twentieth Amendment, his term expired at noon Eastern Standard Time on January 20, 2001.

Republican Party nomination

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Republican Party (United States)
Republican Party (United States)
2000 Republican Party ticket
George W. Bush Dick Cheney
for President for Vice President
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Governor of Texas
(1995–2000) 		17th
U.S. Secretary of Defense
(1989–1993)
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John McCain Alan Keyes Steve Forbes Gary Bauer Orrin Hatch Elizabeth Dole Pat Buchanan
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from Arizona
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(1985–1987) 		Businessman U.S. Under Secretary of Education
(1985–1987) 		U.S. Senator
from Utah
(1977–2019) 		U.S. Secretary of Labor
(1989-1990) 		White House Communications Director
(1985-1987)
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6,457,696 votes 		W: July 25
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151,362 votes 		W: Feb 4
65,128 votes 		W: Jan 26
20,408 votes 		W: Oct 20

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W: Oct 25

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Primaries

Bush became the early front-runner, acquiring unprecedented funding and a broad base of leadership support based on his governorship of Texas, the Bush family's name recognition, and connections in American politics. Former cabinet member George Shultz played an important early role in securing establishment Republican support for Bush. In April 1998, he invited Bush to discuss policy issues with experts including Michael Boskin, John Taylor, and Condoleezza Rice, who later became his Secretary of State. The group, which was "looking for a candidate for 2000 with good political instincts, someone they could work with", was impressed, and Shultz encouraged him to enter the race.[8]

Several aspirants withdrew before the Iowa caucuses because they did not secure funding and endorsements sufficient to remain competitive with Bush. These included Elizabeth Dole, Dan Quayle, Lamar Alexander, and Bob Smith. Pat Buchanan dropped out to run for the Reform Party nomination. That left Bush, John McCain, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, and Orrin Hatch as the only candidates still in the race.

On January 24, Bush won the Iowa caucuses with 41% of the vote. Forbes came in second with 30% of the vote. Keyes received 14%, Bauer 9%, McCain 5%, and Hatch 1%.[9] Two days later, Hatch dropped out and endorsed Bush.[10] The national media portrayed Bush as the establishment candidate. With the support of many moderate Republicans and Independents, McCain portrayed himself as a crusading insurgent who focused on campaign reform.[11]

On February 1, McCain, who had skipped the caucuses in order to divert resources toward New Hampshire and South Carolina, won a surprising 49–30% victory over Bush in the New Hampshire primary.[12] Bauer subsequently dropped out, followed by Forbes, who had won no primaries after spending $32 million of his own money on his campaign.[13] This left three candidates. In the South Carolina primary, Bush soundly defeated McCain.[14] Some McCain supporters accused the Bush campaign of mudslinging and negative campaigning, citing push polls that implied that McCain's adopted Bangladeshi-born daughter was an African-American child he fathered out of wedlock.[15] McCain's loss in South Carolina damaged his campaign, but he won both Michigan and his home state of Arizona on February 22.[16]

The primary campaigns impacted the South Carolina State House, where a controversy about the Confederate flag flying over the capitol dome prompted the state legislature to move the flag to a less prominent position at a Civil War memorial on the capitol grounds. Most GOP candidates said the issue should be left to South Carolina voters, but McCain later recanted and said the flag should be removed.[17]

McCain criticized Bush for speaking at and accepting the endorsement of Bob Jones University despite its policy banning interracial dating, actions for which Bush subsequently apologized.[18] On February 28, McCain also referred to Jerry Falwell and televangelist Pat Robertson as "agents of intolerance,"[19] a term from which he distanced himself during his 2008 bid. He lost Virginia to Bush on February 29.[20] On Super Tuesday, March 7, Bush won New York, Ohio, Georgia, Missouri, California, Maryland, and Maine. McCain won Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts but dropped out of the race. McCain became the Republican presidential nominee 8 years later, but lost the general election to Barack Obama. Bush took the majority of the remaining contests and won the Republican nomination on March 14, winning his home state of Texas and his brother Jeb's home state of Florida, among others. At the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Bush accepted the nomination.

Bush asked former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney to head up a team to help select a running mate for him, but ultimately chose Cheney himself as the vice presidential nominee. While the U.S. Constitution does not specifically disallow a president and a vice president from the same state, it prohibits electors from casting both of their votes for persons from their own state. Accordingly, Cheney—who had been a resident of Texas for nearly 10 years—changed his voting registration back to Wyoming. Had Cheney not done this, either he or Bush would have forfeited his electoral votes from Texas.[21]

Delegate totals
  • Governor George W. Bush – 1,526
  • Senator John McCain – 275
  • Ambassador Alan Keyes – 23
  • Businessman Steve Forbes – 10
  • Gary Bauer – 2
  • None of the names shown – 2
  • Uncommitted – 1

Democratic Party nomination

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Democratic Party (United States)
2000 Democratic Party ticket
Al Gore Joe Lieberman
for President for Vice President
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Vice President of the United States
(1993–2001) 		U.S. Senator
from Connecticut
(1989–2013)
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Bill Bradley
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U.S. Senator
from New Jersey
(1979–1997)
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3,027,912 votes

Primary

Vice President Al Gore was a consistent front-runner for the nomination. Other prominent Democrats mentioned as possible contenders included Bob Kerrey,[22] Missouri Representative Dick Gephardt, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, and actor and director Warren Beatty.[23] Of these, only Wellstone formed an exploratory committee.[24]

Running an insurgency campaign, Bradley positioned himself as the alternative to Gore, who was a founding member of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. While former basketball star Michael Jordan campaigned for him in the early primary states, Bradley announced his intention to campaign "in a different way" by conducting a positive campaign of "big ideas." His campaign's focus was a plan to spend the record-breaking budget surplus on a variety of social welfare programs to help the poor and the middle class, along with campaign finance reform and gun control.

Gore easily defeated Bradley in the primaries, largely because of support from the Democratic Party establishment and Bradley's poor showing in the Iowa caucus, where Gore successfully painted Bradley as aloof and indifferent to the plight of farmers. The closest Bradley came to a victory was his 50–46 loss to Gore in the New Hampshire primary. On March 14, Gore clinched the Democratic nomination.

None of Bradley's delegates were allowed to vote for him, so Gore won the nomination unanimously at the Democratic National Convention. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was nominated for vice president by voice vote. Lieberman became the first Jewish American ever to be chosen for this position by a major party. Gore chose Lieberman over five other finalists: Senators Evan Bayh, John Edwards, and John Kerry, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, and New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen.[25]

Delegate totals:

  • Vice President Albert Gore Jr. – 4,328
  • Abstentions – 9

Other nominations

Reform Party nomination

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Pat Buchanan Ezola Foster
for President for Vice President
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(1985–1987) 		Conservative political activist
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The nomination went to Pat Buchanan[26] and running mate Ezola Foster from California over the objections of party founder Ross Perot and despite a rump convention nomination of John Hagelin by the Perot faction. In the end, the Federal Election Commission sided with Buchanan, and that ticket appeared on 49 of 51 possible ballots.[27]

Association of State Green Parties nomination

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The Greens/Green Party USA, the then-recognized national party organization, later endorsed Nader for president and he appeared on the ballots of 43 states and Washington, D.C.

Libertarian Party nomination

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The Libertarian Party's National Nominating Convention nominated Harry Browne from Tennessee and Art Olivier from California for president and vice president. Browne was nominated on the first ballot and Olivier received the vice presidential nomination on the second ballot.[30] Browne appeared on every state ballot except Arizona's, due to a dispute between the Libertarian Party of Arizona (which instead nominated L. Neil Smith) and the national Libertarian Party.

Constitution Party nomination

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The Constitution Party nominated Howard Phillips from Virginia for a third time and Curtis Frazier from Missouri. It was on the ballot in 41 states.[31]

Natural Law Party nomination

The Natural Law Party held its national convention in Arlington County, Virginia, on August 31–September 2, unanimously nominating a ticket of Hagelin/Goldhaber without a roll-call vote.[32] The party was on 38 of the 51 ballots nationally.[31]

Independents

  • Bob Smith U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1990-2003)
    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from NH-01 (1985-1990) Withdrew: October 28, 1999

General election campaign

Although the campaign focused mainly on domestic issues, such as the projected budget surplus, proposed reforms of Social Security and Medicare, health care, and competing plans for tax relief, foreign policy was often an issue.

Bush criticized the Clinton administration's policies in Somalia, where 18 Americans died in 1993 trying to make peace among warring factions, and in the Balkans, where United States peacekeeping troops perform a variety of functions. "I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building", Bush said in the second presidential debate.[33] Bush also pledged to bridge partisan gaps, claiming the atmosphere in Washington stood in the way of progress on necessary reforms.[34] Gore, meanwhile, questioned Bush's fitness for the job, pointing to gaffes Bush made in interviews and speeches and suggesting he lacked the necessary experience to be president.

Bill Clinton's impeachment and the sex scandal that led up to it cast a shadow on the campaign. Republicans strongly denounced the Clinton scandals, and Bush made a promise to restore "honor and dignity" to the White House a centerpiece of his campaign. Gore studiously avoided the Clinton scandals, as did Lieberman, even though Lieberman had been the first Democratic senator to denounce Clinton's misbehavior. Some observers theorized that Gore chose Lieberman in an attempt to separate himself from Clinton's past misdeeds and help blunt the GOP's attempts to link him to his boss.[35] Others pointed to the passionate kiss Gore gave his wife during the Democratic Convention as a signal that despite the allegations against Clinton, Gore himself was a faithful husband.[36] Gore avoided appearing with Clinton, who was shunted to low-visibility appearances in areas where he was popular. Experts have argued that this could have cost Gore votes from some of Clinton's core supporters.[37][38]

Ralph Nader was the most successful of the third-party candidates. His campaign was marked by a traveling tour of large "super-rallies" held in sports arenas like Madison Square Garden, with retired talk show host Phil Donahue as master of ceremonies.[39] After initially ignoring Nader, the Gore campaign made a pitch to potential Nader supporters in the campaign's final weeks,[40] downplaying his differences with Nader on the issues and arguing that Gore's ideas were more similar to Nader's than Bush's were and that Gore had a better chance of winning than Nader.[41] On the other side, the Republican Leadership Council ran pro-Nader ads in a few states in an effort to split the liberal vote.[42] Nader said his campaign's objective was to pass the 5-percent threshold so his Green Party would be eligible for matching funds in future races.[43]

Vice-presidential candidates Cheney and Lieberman campaigned aggressively. Both camps made numerous campaign stops nationwide, often just missing each other, such as when Cheney, Hadassah Lieberman, and Tipper Gore attended Chicago's Taste of Polonia over Labor Day Weekend.[44]

Presidential debates

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Debates among candidates for the 2000 U.S. presidential election
No. Date Host City Moderator Participants Viewership
(millions)
P1 Tuesday, October 3, 2000 University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, Massachusetts Jim Lehrer Governor George W. Bush
Vice President Al Gore 		46.6[45]
VP Thursday, October 5, 2000 Centre College Danville, Kentucky Bernard Shaw Secretary Dick Cheney
Senator Joe Lieberman 		28.5[45]
P2 Wednesday, October 11, 2000 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina Jim Lehrer Governor George W. Bush
Vice President Al Gore 		37.5[45]
P3 Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri Jim Lehrer Governor George W. Bush
Vice President Al Gore 		37.7[45]

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After the 1996 presidential election, the Commission on Presidential Debates set new candidate selection criteria.[46] The new criteria required third-party candidates to poll at least 15% of the vote in national polls in order to take part in the CPD-sponsored presidential debates.[46] Nader was blocked from attending a closed-circuit screening of the first debate despite having a ticket,[47] and barred from attending an interview near the site of the third debate (Washington University in St. Louis) despite having a "perimeter pass".[48] Nader later sued the CPD for its role in the former incident. A settlement was reached that included an apology to him.[49]

Notable expressions and phrases

  • Lockbox/Rainy Day fund: Gore's description of what he would do with the federal budget surplus, which was repeated many times in the first debate.
  • Fuzzy math: a term used by Bush to dismiss the figures used by Gore. Others later turned the term against Bush.[50][51]
  • Al Gore invented the Internet: an interpretation of Gore's having said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet," meaning that he was on the committee that funded the research leading to the Internet's formation.
  • "Strategery": a phrase uttered by Saturday Night LiveШаблон:'s Bush character (portrayed by Will Ferrell), which Bush staffers jokingly picked up to describe their operations.

Results

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Palm Beach County recount

With the exceptions of Florida and Gore's home state of Tennessee, Bush carried the Southern states by comfortable margins (including Clinton's home state of Arkansas) and also won Ohio, Indiana, most of the rural Midwestern farming states, most of the Rocky Mountain states, and Alaska. Gore balanced Bush by sweeping the Northeastern United States (with the exception of New Hampshire, which Bush won narrowly), the Pacific Coast states, Hawaii, New Mexico, and most of the Upper Midwest.

As the night wore on, the returns in a handful of small-to-medium-sized states, including Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico (Gore by 355 votes) were extremely close, but the election came down to Florida. As the final national results were tallied the following morning, Bush had clearly won 246 electoral votes and Gore 250, with 270 needed to win. Two smaller states—Wisconsin (11 electoral votes) and Oregon (7)—were still too close to call, but Florida's 25 electoral votes would be decisive regardless of their results. The election's outcome was not known for more than a month after voting ended because of the time required to count and recount Florida's ballots.

Florida recount

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2000 Palm Beach County voting stand and ballot box

Between 7:50 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. EST on November 7, just before the polls closed in the largely Republican Florida panhandle, which is in the Central time zone, all major television news networks (CNN, NBC, FOX, CBS, and ABC) declared that Gore had won Florida. They based this prediction substantially on exit polls. But in the vote, Bush began to take a wide lead early in Florida, and by 10 p.m. EST, the networks had retracted their predictions and placed Florida back in the "undecided" column. At approximately 2:30 a.m. on November 8, with 85% of the vote counted in Florida and Bush leading Gore by more than 100,000 votes, the networks declared that Bush had carried Florida and therefore been elected president. But most of the remaining votes to be counted in Florida were in three heavily Democratic counties—Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach—and as their votes were reported Gore began to gain on Bush. By 4:30 a.m., after all votes were counted, Gore had narrowed Bush's margin to under 2,000 votes, and the networks retracted their declarations that Bush had won Florida and the presidency. Gore, who had privately conceded the election to Bush, withdrew his concession. The final result in Florida was slim enough to require a mandatory recount (by machine) under state law; Bush's lead dwindled to just over 300 votes when it was completed the day after the election. On November 8, Florida Division of Elections staff prepared a press release for Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris that said overseas ballots must be "postmarked or signed and dated" by Election Day. It was never released.[6]Шаблон:Rp A count of the overseas ballots later boosted Bush's margin to 930 votes. (According to a report by The New York Times, 680 of the accepted overseas ballots were received after the legal deadline, lacked required postmarks or a witness signature or address, or were unsigned or undated, cast after election day, from unregistered voters or voters not requesting ballots, or double-counted.[52])

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Florida Supreme Court during the recount

Most of the post-electoral controversy revolved around Gore's request for hand recounts in four counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia), as provided under Florida state law. Harris, who also co-chaired Bush's Florida campaign, announced she would reject any revised totals from those counties if they were not turned in by 5 p.m. on November 14, the statutory deadline for amended returns. The Florida Supreme Court extended the deadline to November 26, a decision later vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Miami-Dade eventually halted its recount and resubmitted its original total to the state canvassing board, while Palm Beach County failed to meet the extended deadline, turning in its completed recount results at 7 p.m., which Harris rejected. On November 26, the state canvassing board certified Bush as the winner of Florida's electors by 537 votes. Gore formally contested the certified results. A state court decision overruling Gore was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered a recount of over 70,000 ballots previously rejected as undervotes by machine counters. The U.S. Supreme Court halted that order the next day, with Justice Scalia issuing a concurring opinion that "the counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner" (Bush).[53]

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Gore-Lieberman supporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court

On December 12, the Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam decision (asserted as a 7–2 vote) that the Florida Supreme Court's ruling requiring a statewide recount of ballots was unconstitutional on equal protection grounds, and in a 5–4 vote reversed and remanded the case to the Florida Supreme Court for modification before the optional "safe harbor" deadline, which the Supreme Court decided the Florida court had said the state intended to meet. With only two hours remaining until the December 12 deadline, the Supreme Court's order effectively ended the recount, and the previously certified total held.

Even if the Supreme Court had decided differently in Bush v. Gore, the Florida Legislature had been meeting in Special Session since December 8 with the purpose of selecting of a slate of electors on December 12 should the dispute still be ongoing.[54][55] Had the recount gone forward, it would have awarded those electors to Bush, based on the state-certified vote, and Gore's likely last recourse would have been to contest the electors in the United States Congress. The electors would then have been rejected only if both houses agreed to do so.[56]

National results

Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more popular votes than Bush,[57] making him the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to win the popular vote but lose in the Electoral College.[58] Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate, making him the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Furthermore, Gore lost West Virginia, a state that had voted Republican only once in the previous six presidential elections.[59]

Before the election, the possibility that different candidates would win the popular vote and the Electoral College had been noted, but usually with the expectation of Gore winning the Electoral College and Bush the popular vote.[60][61][62][63][64] The idea that Bush could win the Electoral College and Gore the popular vote was not considered likely. Шаблон:Multiple image

This was the first time since 1928 when a non-incumbent Republican candidate won West Virginia. The Electoral College results were the closest since 1876, making this election the second-closest Electoral College result in history and the third-closest popular vote victory. Gore's 266 electoral votes is the highest for a losing nominee.[65] Bush was the first Republican since William McKinley to win with under 300 electoral votes. He was also the first son of a former president to be elected president himself since John Quincy Adams in 1824.

Bush was the first Republican in American history to win the presidency without carrying Vermont, Illinois, or New Mexico, as well as the second Republican to win the presidency without carrying California after James A. Garfield in 1880, and Pennsylvania, Maine, and Michigan after Richard Nixon in 1968, as well as the first winning Republican not to receive any electoral votes from California as Garfield received one electoral vote in 1880. Bush was the first Republican to win without New Jersey, Delaware, or Connecticut since 1888. As of 2020, Bush is the last Republican nominee to win New Hampshire. No state in the Northeast has voted Republican since except for Pennsylvania in 2016. This marked the first time since Iowa entered the union in 1846 in which the state voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in four elections in a row and the last time until 2020 that Iowa did not vote for the overall winner. This election was the first time since 1976 that New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, Illinois, New Mexico, Michigan, and California voted for the losing candidate, as well as the first since 1980 that Maryland did so, the first since 1948 that Delaware did so, and the first since 1968 that Pennsylvania did so.

There were only two counties in the nation that had voted Republican in 1996 and flipped to the Democratic column in 2000: Charles County, Maryland, and Orange County, Florida, both rapidly diversifying counties.[66] The 2000 election was also the last time a Republican won a number of populous urban counties that have since turned into Democratic strongholds. These include Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (Charlotte); Marion County, Indiana (Indianapolis), Fairfax County, Virginia (DC suburbs), Chatham County, Georgia (Savannah), Whatcom County, Washington (Bellingham), and Travis County, Texas (Austin). Conversely, as of 2020, Gore is the last Democrat to have won any counties at all in Oklahoma.[67]

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Results by state

Legend
States/districts won by Gore/Lieberman
States/districts won by Bush/Cheney
† At-large results (For states that split electoral votes)
George W. Bush
Republican 		Al Gore
Democratic 		Ralph Nader
Green 		Pat Buchanan
Reform 		Harry Browne
Libertarian 		Howard Phillips
Constitution 		John Hagelin
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Alabama 9 941,173 56.48% 9 692,611 41.57% – 18,323 1.10% – 6,351 0.38% – 5,893 0.35% – 775 0.05% – 447 0.03% – 699 0.04% – 248,562 14.92% 1,666,272 AL
Alaska 3 167,398 58.62% 3 79,004 27.67% – 28,747 10.07% – 5,192 1.82% – 2,636 0.92% – 596 0.21% – 919 0.32% – 1,068 0.37% – 88,394 30.95% 285,560 AK
Arizona* 8 781,652 51.02% 8 685,341 44.73% – 45,645 2.98% – 12,373 0.81% – – – – 110 0.01% – 1,120 0.07% – 5,775 0.38% – 96,311 6.29% 1,532,016 AZ
Arkansas 6 472,940 51.31% 6 422,768 45.86% – 13,421 1.46% – 7,358 0.80% – 2,781 0.30% – 1,415 0.15% – 1,098 0.12% – – – – 50,172 5.44% 921,781 AR
California 54 4,567,429 41.65% – 5,861,203 53.45% 54 418,707 3.82% – 44,987 0.41% – 45,520 0.42% – 17,042 0.16% – 10,934 0.10% – 34 0.00% – −1,293,774 −11.80% 10,965,856 CA
Colorado 8 883,748 50.75% 8 738,227 42.39% – 91,434 5.25% – 10,465 0.60% – 12,799 0.73% – 1,319 0.08% – 2,240 0.13% – 1,136 0.07% – 145,521 8.36% 1,741,368 CO
Connecticut 8 561,094 38.44% – 816,015 55.91% 8 64,452 4.42% – 4,731 0.32% – 3,484 0.24% – 9,695 0.66% – 40 0.00% – 14 0.00% – −254,921 −17.47% 1,459,525 CT
Delaware 3 137,288 41.90% – 180,068 54.96% 3 8,307 2.54% – 777 0.24% – 774 0.24% – 208 0.06% – 107 0.03% – 93 0.03% – −42,780 −13.06% 327,622 DE
D.C. 3 18,073 8.95% – 171,923 85.16% 2 10,576 5.24% – – – – 669 0.33% – – – – – – – 653 0.32% 1 −153,850 −76.20% 201,894 DC
Florida 25 2,912,790 48.85% 25 2,912,253 48.84% – 97,488 1.63% – 17,484 0.29% – 16,415 0.28% – 1,371 0.02% – 2,281 0.04% – 3,028 0.05% – 537 0.01% 5,963,110 FL
Georgia 13 1,419,720 54.67% 13 1,116,230 42.98% – 13,432 0.52% – 10,926 0.42% – 36,332 1.40% – 140 0.01% – – – – 24 0.00% – 303,490 11.69% 2,596,804 GA
Hawaii 4 137,845 37.46% – 205,286 55.79% 4 21,623 5.88% – 1,071 0.29% – 1,477 0.40% – 343 0.09% – 306 0.08% – – – – −67,441 −18.33% 367,951 HI
Idaho 4 336,937 67.17% 4 138,637 27.64% – 12,292 2.45% – 7,615 1.52% – 3,488 0.70% – 1,469 0.29% – 1,177 0.23% – 6 0.00% – 198,300 39.53% 501,621 ID
Illinois 22 2,019,421 42.58% – 2,589,026 54.60% 22 103,759 2.19% – 16,106 0.34% – 11,623 0.25% – 57 0.00% – 2,127 0.04% – 4 0.00% – −569,605 −12.01% 4,742,123 IL
Indiana 12 1,245,836 56.65% 12 901,980 41.01% – 18,531 0.84% – 16,959 0.77% – 15,530 0.71% – 200 0.01% – 167 0.01% – 99 0.00% – 343,856 15.63% 2,199,302 IN
Iowa 7 634,373 48.22% – 638,517 48.54% 7 29,374 2.23% – 5,731 0.44% – 3,209 0.24% – 613 0.05% – 2,281 0.17% – 1,465 0.11% – −4,144 −0.31% 1,315,563 IA
Kansas 6 622,332 58.04% 6 399,276 37.24% – 36,086 3.37% – 7,370 0.69% – 4,525 0.42% – 1,254 0.12% – 1,375 0.13% – – – – 223,056 20.80% 1,072,218 KS
Kentucky 8 872,492 56.50% 8 638,898 41.37% – 23,192 1.50% – 4,173 0.27% – 2,896 0.19% – 923 0.06% – 1,533 0.10% – 80 0.01% – 233,594 15.13% 1,544,187 KY
Louisiana 9 927,871 52.55% 9 792,344 44.88% – 20,473 1.16% – 14,356 0.81% – 2,951 0.17% – 5,483 0.31% – 1,075 0.06% – 1,103 0.06% – 135,527 7.68% 1,765,656 LA
Maine† 2 286,616 43.97% – 319,951 49.09% 2 37,127 5.70% – 4,443 0.68% – 3,074 0.47% – 579 0.09% – – – – 27 0.00% – −33,335 −5.11% 651,817 ME
Maine-1 1 148,618 42.59% – 176,293 50.52% 1 20,297 5.82% – 1,994 0.57% – 1,479 0.42% – 253 0.07% – – – – 17 0.00% – –27,675 –7.93% 348,951 ME1
Maine-2 1 137,998 45.56% – 143,658 47.43% 1 16,830 5.56% – 2,449 0.81% – 1,595 0.53% – 326 0.11% – – – – 10 0.00% – –5,660 –1.87% 302,866 ME2
Maryland 10 813,797 40.18% – 1,145,782 56.57% 10 53,768 2.65% – 4,248 0.21% – 5,310 0.26% – 919 0.05% – 176 0.01% – 1,480 0.07% – −331,985 −16.39% 2,025,480 MD
Massachusetts 12 878,502 32.50% – 1,616,487 59.80% 12 173,564 6.42% – 11,149 0.41% – 16,366 0.61% – – – – 2,884 0.11% – 4,032 0.15% – −737,985 −27.30% 2,702,984 MA
Michigan 18 1,953,139 46.15% – 2,170,418 51.28% 18 84,165 1.99% – 1,851 0.04% – 16,711 0.39% – 3,791 0.09% – 2,426 0.06% – – – – −217,279 −5.13% 4,232,501 MI
Minnesota 10 1,109,659 45.50% – 1,168,266 47.91% 10 126,696 5.20% – 22,166 0.91% – 5,282 0.22% – 3,272 0.13% – 2,294 0.09% – 1,050 0.04% – −58,607 −2.40% 2,438,685 MN
Mississippi 7 572,844 57.62% 7 404,614 40.70% – 8,122 0.82% – 2,265 0.23% – 2,009 0.20% – 3,267 0.33% – 450 0.05% – 613 0.06% – 168,230 16.92% 994,184 MS
Missouri 11 1,189,924 50.42% 11 1,111,138 47.08% – 38,515 1.63% – 9,818 0.42% – 7,436 0.32% – 1,957 0.08% – 1,104 0.05% – – – – 78,786 3.34% 2,359,892 MO
Montana 3 240,178 58.44% 3 137,126 33.36% – 24,437 5.95% – 5,697 1.39% – 1,718 0.42% – 1,155 0.28% – 675 0.16% – 11 0.00% – 103,052 25.07% 410,997 MT
Nebraska† 2 433,862 62.25% 2 231,780 33.25% – 24,540 3.52% – 3,646 0.52% – 2,245 0.32% – 468 0.07% – 478 0.07% – – – – 202,082 28.99% 697,019 NE
Nebraska-1 1 142,562 58.90% 1 86,946 35.92% – 10,085 4.17% – 1,324 0.55% – 754 0.31% – 167 0.07% – 185 0.08% – – – – 55,616 22.98% 242,023 NE1
Nebraska-2 1 131,485 56.92% 1 88,975 38.52% – 8,495 3.68% – 845 0.37% – 925 0.40% – 146 0.06% – 141 0.06% – – – – 42,510 18.40% 231,012 NE2
Nebraska-3 1 159,815 71.35% 1 55,859 24.94% – 5,960 2.66% – 1,477 0.66% – 566 0.25% – 155 0.07% – 152 0.07% – – – – 103,956 46.41% 223,984 NE3
Nevada 4 301,575 49.52% 4 279,978 45.98% – 15,008 2.46% – 4,747 0.78% – 3,311 0.54% – 621 0.10% – 415 0.07% – 3,315 0.54% – 21,597 3.55% 608,970 NV
New Hampshire 4 273,559 48.07% 4 266,348 46.80% – 22,198 3.90% – 2,615 0.46% – 2,757 0.48% – 328 0.06% – 55 0.01% – 1,221 0.21% – 7,211 1.27% 569,081 NH
New Jersey 15 1,284,173 40.29% – 1,788,850 56.13% 15 94,554 2.97% – 6,989 0.22% – 6,312 0.20% – 1,409 0.04% – 2,215 0.07% – 2,724 0.09% – −504,677 −15.83% 3,187,226 NJ
New Mexico 5 286,417 47.85% – 286,783 47.91% 5 21,251 3.55% – 1,392 0.23% – 2,058 0.34% – 343 0.06% – 361 0.06% – – – – −366 −0.06% 598,605 NM
New York 33 2,403,374 35.23% – 4,107,697 60.21% 33 244,030 3.58% – 31,599 0.46% – 7,649 0.11% – 1,498 0.02% – 24,361 0.36% – 1,791 0.03% – −1,704,323 −24.98% 6,821,999 NY
North Carolina 14 1,631,163 56.03% 14 1,257,692 43.20% – – – – 8,874 0.30% – 12,307 0.42% – – – – – – – 1,226 0.04% – 373,471 12.83% 2,911,262 NC
North Dakota 3 174,852 60.66% 3 95,284 33.06% – 9,486 3.29% – 7,288 2.53% – 660 0.23% – 373 0.13% – 313 0.11% – – – – 79,568 27.60% 288,256 ND
Ohio 21 2,351,209 49.97% 21 2,186,190 46.46% – 117,857 2.50% – 26,724 0.57% – 13,475 0.29% – 3,823 0.08% – 6,169 0.13% – 10 0.00% – 165,019 3.51% 4,705,457 OH
Oklahoma 8 744,337 60.31% 8 474,276 38.43% – – – – 9,014 0.73% – 6,602 0.53% – – – – – – – – – – 270,061 21.88% 1,234,229 OK
Oregon 7 713,577 46.52% – 720,342 46.96% 7 77,357 5.04% – 7,063 0.46% – 7,447 0.49% – 2,189 0.14% – 2,574 0.17% – 3,419 0.22% – −6,765 −0.44% 1,533,968 OR
Pennsylvania 23 2,281,127 46.43% – 2,485,967 50.60% 23 103,392 2.10% – 16,023 0.33% – 11,248 0.23% – 14,428 0.29% – – – – 934 0.02% – −204,840 −4.17% 4,913,119 PA
Rhode Island 4 130,555 31.91% – 249,508 60.99% 4 25,052 6.12% – 2,273 0.56% – 742 0.18% – 97 0.02% – 271 0.07% – 614 0.15% – −118,953 −29.08% 409,112 RI
South Carolina 8 785,937 56.84% 8 565,561 40.90% – 20,200 1.46% – 3,519 0.25% – 4,876 0.35% – 1,682 0.12% – 942 0.07% – – – – 220,376 15.94% 1,382,717 SC
South Dakota 3 190,700 60.30% 3 118,804 37.56% – – – – 3,322 1.05% – 1,662 0.53% – 1,781 0.56% – – – – – – – 71,896 22.73% 316,269 SD
Tennessee 11 1,061,949 51.15% 11 981,720 47.28% – 19,781 0.95% – 4,250 0.20% – 4,284 0.21% – 1,015 0.05% – 613 0.03% – 2,569 0.12% – 80,229 3.86% 2,076,181 TN
Texas 32 3,799,639 59.30% 32 2,433,746 37.98% – 137,994 2.15% – 12,394 0.19% – 23,160 0.36% – 567 0.01% – – – – 137 0.00% – 1,365,893 21.32% 6,407,637 TX
Utah 5 515,096 66.83% 5 203,053 26.34% – 35,850 4.65% – 9,319 1.21% – 3,616 0.47% – 2,709 0.35% – 763 0.10% – 348 0.05% – 312,043 40.49% 770,754 UT
Vermont 3 119,775 40.70% – 149,022 50.63% 3 20,374 6.92% – 2,192 0.74% – 784 0.27% – 153 0.05% – 219 0.07% – 1,789 0.61% – −29,247 −9.94% 294,308 VT
Virginia 13 1,437,490 52.47% 13 1,217,290 44.44% – 59,398 2.17% – 5,455 0.20% – 15,198 0.55% – 1,809 0.07% – 171 0.01% – 2,636 0.10% – 220,200 8.04% 2,739,447 VA
Washington 11 1,108,864 44.58% – 1,247,652 50.16% 11 103,002 4.14% – 7,171 0.29% – 13,135 0.53% – 1,989 0.08% – 2,927 0.12% – 2,693 0.11% – −138,788 −5.58% 2,487,433 WA
West Virginia 5 336,475 51.92% 5 295,497 45.59% – 10,680 1.65% – 3,169 0.49% – 1,912 0.30% – 23 0.00% – 367 0.06% – 1 0.00% – 40,978 6.32% 648,124 WV
Wisconsin 11 1,237,279 47.61% – 1,242,987 47.83% 11 94,070 3.62% – 11,471 0.44% – 6,640 0.26% – 2,042 0.08% – 853 0.03% – 3,265 0.13% – −5,708 −0.22% 2,598,607 WI
Wyoming 3 147,947 67.76% 3 60,481 27.70% – 4,625 2.12% – 2,724 1.25% – 1,443 0.66% – 720 0.33% – 411 0.19% – – – – 87,466 40.06% 218,351 WY
Totals† 538 50,456,002 47.86% 271 50,999,897 48.38% 267 2,882,955 2.74% – 448,895 0.43% – 384,431* 0.36%* – 98,020 0.09% – 83,714 0.08% – 51,186 0.05% – −543,895 −0.52% 105,405,100 US

Arizona results

*The Libertarian Party of Arizona had ballot access but opted to supplant Browne with L. Neil Smith. In Arizona, Smith received 5,775 votes, or 0.38% of the Arizona vote. Adding Smith's 5,775 votes to Browne's 384,431 votes nationwide, the total votes cast for president for the Libertarian Party in 2000 was 390,206, or 0.37% of the national vote.

Maine and Nebraska district results

†Maine and Nebraska each allow for their electoral votes to be split between candidates. In both states, two electoral votes are awarded to the winner of the statewide race and one electoral vote is awarded to the winner of each congressional district. The votes for each candidate are only singly counted in the column totals.[68][69]

Close states

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States where the margin of victory was less than 1% (55 electoral votes):[70]

  1. Florida, 0.009% (537 votes) (tipping point state)
  2. New Mexico, 0.061% (366 votes)
  3. Wisconsin, 0.22% (5,708 votes)
  4. Iowa, 0.31% (4,144 votes)
  5. Oregon, 0.44% (6,765 votes)

States where the margin of victory was more than 1% but less than 5% (84 electoral votes):

  1. New Hampshire, 1.27% (7,211 votes)
  2. Maine's 2nd Congressional District, 1.87% (5,660 votes)
  3. Minnesota, 2.40% (58,607 votes)
  4. Missouri, 3.34% (78,786 votes)
  5. Ohio, 3.51% (165,019 votes)
  6. Nevada, 3.55% (21,597 votes)
  7. Tennessee, 3.86% (80,229 votes)
  8. Pennsylvania, 4.17% (204,840 votes)

States where the margin of victory was more than 5% but less than 10% (84 electoral votes):

  1. Maine, 5.11% (33,335 votes)
  2. Michigan, 5.13% (217,279 votes)
  3. Arkansas, 5.44% (50,172 votes)
  4. Washington, 5.58% (138,788 votes)
  5. Arizona, 6.29% (96,311 votes)
  6. West Virginia, 6.32% (40,978 votes)
  7. Louisiana, 7.68% (135,527 votes)
  8. Maine's 1st Congressional District, 7.93% (27,675 votes)
  9. Virginia, 8.04% (220,200 votes)
  10. Colorado, 8.36% (145,518 votes)
  11. Vermont, 9.94% (29,247 votes)

Statistics

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Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican)

  1. Glasscock County, Texas 92.47%
  2. Ochiltree County, Texas 90.72%
  3. Hansford County, Texas 89.75%
  4. Harding County, South Dakota 88.92%
  5. Carter County, Montana 88.84%

Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic)

  1. Macon County, Alabama 86.80%
  2. Bronx County, New York 86.28%
  3. Shannon County, South Dakota 85.36%
  4. Washington, D.C. 85.16%
  5. City of Baltimore, Maryland 82.52%

Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Other)

  1. San Miguel County, Colorado 17.20%
  2. Missoula County, Montana 15.03%
  3. Grand County, Utah 14.94%
  4. Mendocino County, California 14.68%
  5. Hampshire County, Massachusetts 14.59%

Ballot access

Presidential ticket Party Ballot access Votes
Gore / Lieberman Democratic 50+DC 50,999,897
Bush / Cheney Republican 50+DC 50,456,002
Nader / LaDuke Green 43+DC 2,882,955
Buchanan / Foster Reform 49 448,895
Browne / Olivier Libertarian 49+DC★ 384,431★
Phillips / Frazier Constitution 41 98,020
Hagelin / Goldhaber Natural Law 38 83,714

★Although the Libertarian Party had ballot access in all fifty United States plus D.C., Browne's name only appeared on the ballot in forty-nine United States plus D.C. The Libertarian Party of Arizona opted to place L. Neil Smith on the ballot in Browne's place. When adding Smith's 5,775 Arizona votes to Browne's 384,431 votes nationwide, that brings the total presidential votes cast for the Libertarian Party in 2000 to 390,206.

Voter demographics

The 2000 presidential vote by demographic subgroup
Demographic subgroup Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic|Gore Шаблон:Party shading/Republican|Bush Шаблон:Party shading/Independent|Other % of
total vote
Total vote 48 48 4 100
Ideology
Liberals 81 13 6 20
Moderates 53 45 2 50
Conservatives 17 82 1 29
Party
Democrats 87 11 2 39
Republicans 8 91 1 35
Independents 46 48 6 26
Gender
Men 43 54 3 48
Women 54 44 2 52
Race
White 42 55 3 81
Black 90 9 1 10
Asian 55 41 4 2
Hispanic 62 35 3 7
Age
18–24 years old 47 47 6 9
25–29 years old 49 46 5 8
30–49 years old 48 50 2 45
50–64 years old 50 48 2 24
65 and older 51 47 2 14
Sexual orientation
Gay, lesbian, or bisexual 71 25 4 4
Heterosexual 47 50 3 96
Family income
Under $15,000 58 38 4 7
$15,000–30,000 54 42 4 16
$30,000–50,000 49 48 3 24
$50,000–75,000 46 51 3 25
$75,000–100,000 46 52 2 13
Over $100,000 43 55 2 15
Region
East 56 40 4 23
Midwest 48 49 3 26
South 43 56 1 31
West 49 47 4 20
Union households
Union 59 37 4 26
Non-union 45 53 2 74

Source: Voter News Service exit poll from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (13,225 surveyed)[72]

Aftermath

After Florida was decided and Gore conceded, Texas Governor George W. Bush became the president-elect and began forming his transition committee.[73] In a speech on December 13, in the Texas House of Representatives chamber,[74] Bush stated he was reaching across party lines to bridge a divided America, saying, "the President of the United States is the President of every single American, of every race, and every background."[75]

Post-recount

On January 6, 2001, a joint session of Congress met to certify the electoral vote. Twenty members of the House of Representatives, most of them members of the all-Democratic Congressional Black Caucus, rose one by one to file objections to the electoral votes of Florida. But pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, any such objection had to be sponsored by both a representative and a senator. No senator co-sponsored these objections, deferring to the Supreme Court's ruling. Therefore, Gore, who presided in his capacity as President of the Senate, ruled each of these objections out of order.[76] Subsequently, the joint session of Congress on January 7, 2001, certified the electoral votes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.[77]

Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001. He served for the next eight years. Gore has not, as of 2022, considered another presidential run, endorsing Howard Dean's candidacy during the 2004 Democratic primary and remaining neutral in the Democratic primaries of 2008, 2016 and 2020.[78][79][80][81][82]

The first independent recount of undervotes was conducted by the Miami Herald and USA Today. The commission found that under most scenarios for completion of the initiated recounts, Bush would have won the election, but Gore would have won using the most generous standards for undervotes.[83]

Ultimately, a media consortium—comprising The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Tribune Co. (parent of the Los Angeles Times), Associated Press, CNN, The Palm Beach Post and the St. Petersburg Times[84]—hired NORC at the University of Chicago[85] to examine 175,010 ballots collected from the entire state, not just the disputed counties that were recounted; these ballots contained undervotes (ballots with no machine-detected choice made for president) and overvotes (ballots with more than one choice marked). Their goal was to determine the reliability and accuracy of the systems used for the voting process. Based on the NORC review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over all the ballots in question had been resolved by applying statewide any of five standards that would have met Florida's legal standard for recounts, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes. (Any analysis of NORC data requires, for each punch ballot, at least two of the three ballot reviewers' codes to agree or instead, for all three to agree.) For all undervotes and overvotes statewide, these five standards are:[6][86][87]

  • Prevailing standard – accepts at least one detached corner of a chad and all affirmative marks on optical scan ballots.
  • County-by-county standard – applies each county's own standards independently.
  • Two-corner standard – accepts at least two detached corners of a chad and all affirmative marks on optical scan ballots.
  • Most restrictive standard – accepts only so-called perfect ballots that machines somehow missed and did not count, or ballots with unambiguous expressions of voter intent.
  • Most inclusive standard – applies uniform criteria of "dimple or better" on punch marks and all affirmative marks on optical scan ballots.

Such a statewide review including all uncounted votes was a tangible possibility, as Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, whom the Florida Supreme Court had assigned to oversee the statewide recount, had scheduled a hearing for December 13 (mooted by the U.S. Supreme Court's final ruling on the 12th) to consider the question of including overvotes as well as undervotes. Subsequent statements by Lewis and internal court documents support the likelihood of including overvotes in the recount.[88] Florida State University professor of public policy Lance deHaven-Smith observed that, even considering only undervotes, "under any of the five most reasonable interpretations of the Florida Supreme Court ruling, Gore does, in fact, more than make up the deficit".[6] Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's analysis of the NORC study and media coverage of it supports these interpretations and criticizes the coverage of the study by media outlets such as The New York Times and the other media consortium members.[84]

Further, according to sociologists Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza, the 2000 election might have gone to Gore if the disenfranchised population of Florida had voted. Florida law disenfranchises convicted felons, requiring individual applications to regain suffrage. In a 2002 American Sociological Review article, Uggen and Manza found that the released felon vote could have altered the outcome of seven senatorial races between 1978 and 2000, and the 2000 presidential election.[89] Matt Ford noted their study concluded, "if the state's 827,000 disenfranchised felons had voted at the same rate as other Floridians, Democratic candidate Al Gore would have won Florida—and the presidency—by more than 80,000 votes."[90] The effect of Florida's law is such that in 2014, purportedly "[m]ore than one in ten Floridians—and nearly one in four African-American Floridians—are shut out of the polls because of felony convictions."[91]

Voting machines

Because the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the federal government and state governments pushed for election reform to be prepared by the 2004 presidential election. Many of Florida's 2000 election night problems stemmed from usability and ballot design factors with voting systems, including the potentially confusing "butterfly ballot." Many voters had difficulties with the paper-based punch card voting machines and were either unable to understand the voting process or unable to perform it. This resulted in an unusual number of overvotes (voting for more candidates than is allowed) and undervotes (voting for fewer than the minimum candidates, including none at all). Many undervotes were caused by voter error, unmaintained punch card voting booths, or errors having to do merely with the characteristics of punch card ballots (resulting in hanging, dimpled, or pregnant chads).

A proposed solution to these problems was the installation of modern electronic voting machines. The 2000 presidential election spurred the debate about election and voting reform but did not end it.

In the aftermath of the election, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was passed to help states upgrade their election technology in the hopes of preventing similar problems in future elections. But the electronic voting systems that many states purchased to comply with HAVA actually caused problems in the 2004 presidential election.[92]

Exit polling and declaration of vote winners

The Voter News Service's reputation was damaged by its treatment of Florida's presidential vote in 2000. Breaking its own guidelines,Шаблон:Citation needed VNS called the state as a win for Gore 12 minutes before polls closed in the Florida Panhandle. Although most of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone, counties in the Panhandle, in the Central Time Zone, had not yet closed their polls. Discrepancies between the results of exit polls and the actual vote count caused the VNS to change its call twice, first from Gore to Bush and then to "too close to call." Due in part to this (and other polling inaccuracies) the VNS was disbanded in 2003.[93]

According to Bush adviser Karl Rove, exit polls early in the afternoon on election day showed Gore winning by three percentage points, but when the networks called the state for Gore, Bush led by about 75,000 votes in raw tallies from the Florida Secretary of State.

Charges of media bias were leveled against the networks by Republicans, who claimed that the networks called states more quickly for Al Gore than for George W. Bush. Congress held hearings on this matter,[94] at which the networks claimed to have no intentional bias in their election night reporting. A study of the calls made on election night 2000 indicated that states carried by Gore were called more quickly than states won by Bush;[95] however, notable states carried by Bush, such as New Hampshire and Florida, were very close, and close states won by Gore, such as Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico and Wisconsin, were called late as well.[96]

The early call of Florida for Gore has been alleged to have cost Bush several close states, including Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin.Шаблон:Citation needed In each of these states, Gore won by less than 10,000 votes, and the polls closed after the networks called Florida for Gore. Because the Florida call was widely seen as an indicator that Gore had won the election, it is possible that it depressed Republican turnout in these states during the final hours of voting, giving Gore the slim margin by which he carried each of them.Шаблон:Citation needed The call may have also affected the outcome of the Senate election in Washington state, where incumbent Republican Slade Gorton was defeated by approximately 2,000 votes.Шаблон:Citation needed

Ralph Nader "spoiler" controversy

Шаблон:Further Many Gore supporters claimed that third-party candidate Nader acted as a spoiler in the election, under the presumption that Nader voters would have voted for Gore had Nader not been in the race.[97] Nader received 2.74 percent of the popular vote nationwide, getting 97,000 votes in Florida (by comparison, there were 111,251 overvotes)[98][99] and 22,000 votes in New Hampshire, where Bush beat Gore by 7,000 votes. Winning either state would have won the general election for Gore. Defenders of Nader, including Dan Perkins, argued that the margin in Florida was small enough that Democrats could blame any number of third-party candidates for the defeat, including Workers World Party candidate Monica Moorehead, who received 1,500 votes.[100]

Nader's reputation was hurt by this perception, which may have hindered his goals as an activist. For example, Mother Jones wrote about the so-called "rank-and-file liberals" who saw Nader negatively after the election and pointed out that Public Citizen, the organization Nader founded in 1971, suffered a drop in contributions. Mother Jones also cited a Public Citizen letter sent out to people interested in Nader's relation with the organization at that time, with the disclaimer: "Although Ralph Nader was our founder, he has not held an official position in the organization since 1980 and does not serve on the board. Public Citizen—and the other groups that Mr. Nader founded—act independently."[101]

Democratic party strategist and Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) chair Al From expressed a different view. In the January 24, 2001, issue[102] of the DLC's Blueprint magazine he wrote, "I think they're wrong on all counts. The assertion that Nader's marginal vote hurt Gore is not borne out by polling data. When exit pollers asked voters how they would have voted in a two-way race, Bush actually won by a point. That was better than he did with Nader in the race."[103]

In an online article published by Salon.com on Tuesday, November 28, 2000, Texan progressive activist Jim Hightower claimed that in Florida, a state Gore lost by only 537 votes, 24,000 Democrats voted for Nader, while another 308,000 Democrats voted for Bush. According to Hightower, 191,000 self-described liberals in Florida voted for Bush, while fewer than 34,000 voted for Nader.[104]

Press influence on race

In their 2007 book The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of US Presidential Elections, 1988–2004, professors Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter said that most media outlets influenced the outcome of the election through the use of horse race journalism.[105] Some liberal supporters of Al Gore argued that the media had a bias against Gore and in favor of Bush. Peter Hart and Jim Naureckas, two commentators for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), called the media "serial exaggerators" and took the view that several media outlets were constantly exaggerating criticism of Gore:[106] they further argued that the media falsely claimed Gore lied when he claimed he spoke in an overcrowded science class in Sarasota, Florida,[106] and that the media gave Bush a pass on certain issues, such as Bush allegedly exaggerating how much money he signed into the annual Texas state budget to help the uninsured during his second debate with Gore in October 2000.[106] In the April 2000 issue of Washington Monthly, columnist Robert Parry wrote that media outlets exaggerated Gore's supposed claim that he "discovered" the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York during a campaign speech in Concord, New Hampshire on November 30, 1999,[107] when he had only claimed he "found" it after it was already evacuated in 1978 because of chemical contamination.[107] Rolling Stone columnist Eric Boehlert also alleged media outlets exaggerated criticism of Gore as early as July 22, 1999,[108] when Gore, known for being an environmentalist, had a friend release 500 million gallons of water into a drought-stricken river to help keep his boat afloat for a photo shoot;[108] Boehlert claimed that media outlets exaggerated the actual number of gallons that were released, as they claimed it was 4 billion.[108]

Effects on future elections and Supreme Court

A number of subsequent articles have characterized the election in 2000, and the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, as damaging the reputation of the Supreme Court, increasing the view of judges as partisan, and decreasing Americans' trust in the integrity of elections.[109][110][111][112][113][114] The number of lawsuits brought over election issues more than doubled following the 2000 election cycle, an increase Richard L. Hasen of UC Irvine School of Law attributes to the "Florida fiasco".[113]

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