That time we elected Al Gore but the election was kicked into the courts-. Wasn't that a coup?

Nobody thinks having a huge war on terror in response to 9-11 was the plan, do they?
How completely different was the 2000 election to the Capitol Insurrection? How separate are the participants from Republicans back then? Totally, right,?

How unrelated was the 2000 election to our democracy problem,?

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

The Election of 2000 was a good example of how people (Gore in particular) still believed in the rule of law. The entire election hinged on a single state result in Florida. The simple fact is that more people went to the polls in Florida and voted for Gore over Bush, but enough of theire votes were miscounted that it threw the election into dispute, which the Supreme Court settled in a 5-4 vote for Bush. Once that occurred, Gore graciously bowed out even though he won the election. It couldn't be more different from the 2021 insurrection supporting a coup to keep Trump in office following a fair election he lost by a wide margin.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@windinhishair he was quite the gentlemen- didn't even appeal.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Roundandroundwego He asked for a recount, and was told that a Constitutionally adequate recount would take too long, as I recall. And he accepted that.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Roundandroundwego It wasn't anything like Trump's 61 failed lawsuits and continued reliance on misinformation and disinformation a year and a half after his spectacular loss.

SW-User

@windinhishair Have a read of this.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html

I dearly wish Gore had won (even though I was 3 at the time, I'm looking back obviously lol) but I'd like to believe that this is true, as I don't really want to believe that the Supreme Court stole the election.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@SW-User so it's not related to this coup by the same conservative party. Okay! My bad -. You don't go there.

SW-User

@Roundandroundwego I don't know enough about what happened in 2000, so I could be wrong.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@SW-User That's an interesting article, and includes specifics that I remember seeing 20+ years ago. My takeaways from going through it at the time is that Gore had more supporters go to the polls in Florida and cast absentee votes to vote for him than Bush, so he should have been president based on actual voters and votes. It is also highly ironic that if Gore's lawsuit on recounting was granted, he would have lost.

Had Gore won, and he should have (and actually did), we wouldn't have gone to war in the Middle East based on lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction. The economy would be much better today without the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that took the nation from a budget SURPLUS to the largest deficit in history in less than two years, because we would have continued to run a surplus. Without Bush, Obama probably doesn't get elected, Trump never runs for President, and we don't have a huge recession from 2007 to 2011. The US, and the world, would be different today.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@windinhishair it's odd that American people don't follow that story enough to become a political force.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Roundandroundwego Very few people even followed it at the time. I would mention it to people in 2001 and 2002 and their eyes would glaze over. No one wanted to deal with it. And there were deniers then just like there are deniers now, though their numbers and ferocity has drastically increased.