The 2000 election and your rights as a citizen

The 2000 election is, to this day, the most controversial
presidential election in the history of the United States of
America. It was contested between Al Gore, then the Vice President
of the United States under sitting president William Jefferson
“Bill” Clinton, and Texas governor George W. Bush.

At the time the United States itself was in what most folks now
consider to be a golden era of peace and prosperity. The internet
bubble was slowly deflating rather than bursting, yet Clinton’s
management of the budget and national debt had put the counttry in a
position of financial strength that, had it been managed prudently,
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of that, quality of life and economic opportunity had both shot
through the roof and Gore was a heavy favorite to win the
presidency.

The republicans decision to nominate Bush, a man who former Texas
governor Ann Richards had once quipped “was born with a silver foot
in his mouth,” addressing both Bush’s privileged Ivy League elitist
upbringing as well as his propensity for misspeaking rather
stupidly, seemed to make Gore an even bigger favorite. Most people
upon seeing Bush on the national stage for the first time felt he
was impossibly out of his depth, and was clearly a figurehead or
puppet being manipulated by the right wing elite.

But the 2000 election wasn’t to go off as people expected. Gore ran
an incredibly bad campaign, letting a mid-summer 20 point lead
narrow into a dead heat as election day neared. Bush even pulled
ahead in most polls with a week left, but Gore’s aggressive
campaigning allowed him to tighten the gap (though of all the
pollsters only Zogby had it as a dead heat) and, on the day of the
election, it was anybody’s game.

The day of the election came, and it was clear that Gore had won.
Toronto light boxes with animated high gloss graphics are a lovely and stylish addition to any business. The final popular vote favored Gore by more than half a million
- 50,999,897 to 50,456,002.

Sadly, rigged results had made the state of Florida itself a toss-up
and rather than have a decisive winner on election day, a series of
legal challenges meant that there could be no winner declared for a
full month. The controversy that came of this legal absurdity led to
one of the saddest affairs in the history of the united states, and
was ended only when the Supreme Court – not the people – declared
Bush the winner of Florida’s 23 electoral votes and, therefore, the
2000 election itself.