Presidential Election of 2000

Kaitlyn Shoemaker Vanessa Hinojosa

Candidates

• The candidates for the presidential election was republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore

George W. Bush

• Before the election, George Bush was governor of Texas

• He was the son of a former President George H. W. Bush

• George was a republican

Al Gore

• Al was Vice President to Bill Clinton for eight years before the election

• He was a democrat • If Al would have won the election he would have been the first democrat

president since the civil war

The election

• George W. Bush had 271 electoral votes and had 50,456,062 popular votes

• Al Gore had 266 electoral votes and had 50,996,582 popular votes

• The election was to close to call so it took 5 weeks to determine the winner

• Al gore had most votes in the East and West coast and inland industrial cities and George had most of the mid west and the plains and the south

• Bush won by having one more vote over the electoral votes

• It was one of only four elections and the first in over 100 years where the popular vote winner was defeated

During the election

• Gore appeared wooden and dismissive of Bush in the debates

• Gore was criticized repeatedly by the Bush campaign as an exaggerator

• In October the gap in the poles between Bush and Gore narrowed dramatically

• There was even an election night where no clear winner emerged

Blue was Al Gore and red was George W. Bush

Florida

• There was controversy over the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes then the runner up

• The contest focused mainly on Florida • There was an uproar over the awarding

of Florida's 25 electoral votes • Also on the subsequent process of

recounting the votes in Florida

• Networks initially projected Gore the winner in Florida but later they declared that Bush had opened insurmountable lead

• Gore called Bush to concede the election, but in the early hours of the morning, it was apparent that Florida was way closer then gores staff had originally believed

• Fewer then 600 votes separated them

Floridas recount

• Gore then called Bush to retract his concession • Florida law required a mandatory state wide machine

recount • By November 10 the recount was done and Bush lead

still at 327 votes • Court challenges were issued over the legality of hand

recounts in select countries and new rumors were pilling up of the election judge

• By late November the Florida state canvassing board certified Bush the winner by 537 votes

• There was still legal battles remaining

More recounts

• Eventually, the Florida supreme court decided to order a state wide a manual recount of 45,000 under votes (ballots that machines recorded as not clearly expressing a presidential vote)and excepted some previously uncertified results in both Miami and palm beach countries

• That reduced Bush’s lead to mere 154 votes • The Bush campaign quickly filed and appeal with the U.S.

supreme court asking it to delay the recounts until it could hear the case

• State wide recount could not be preformed in time to certify the states electors

• The court issued a controversial decision to reverse Florida's recount order and affectively awarding the win to Bush

Videos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEB9hWYMpA0

Bibliography

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• Levy, Michael. "United States Presidential Election of 2000 (United States Government)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 02 June 2014.

• "Election 2000 - What Happened?" Election 2000 - What Happened? N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2014.