Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign

rdf:langString Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign

rdf:langString Al Gore

rdf:langString Joe Lieberman

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rdf:langString U.S. Senator from Connecticut

rdf:langString Al Gore for President 2000

rdf:langString Nashville, Tennessee

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rdf:langString Donna Brazile, campaign manager

rdf:langString William M. Daley, campaign chairman

rdf:langString Leadership for the New Millennium

rdf:langString Prosperity for America's Families

rdf:langString The 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States under President Bill Clinton, began when he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Carthage, Tennessee, on June 16, 1999. Gore became the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election on August 17, 2000. On November 7, 2000, projections indicated that Gore's opponent, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, had narrowly won the election. Gore won the national popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote after a legal battle over disputed vote counts in the state of Florida. Bush won the state of Florida in the initial count and also in each subsequent recount at the time. While a NORC study of uncounted ballots released on November 12, 2001 found that with a full statewide hand recount, Gore may have won Florida under revised vote standards (depending on which standard was used, his margin of victory would have varied from 60 to 171 votes.), under rules devised by the Florida Supreme Court and accepted by the Gore campaign at the time, Bush would likely have won the recount. The legal dispute was ultimately resolved by the Supreme Court of the United States in a 5–4 decision. Bush won the election by 537 votes in Florida, and won the electoral college vote of 271 to 266. One elector pledged to Gore did not cast an electoral vote; Gore received 267 pledged electors. The election was one of the most controversial in American history.

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