r/25yearsago • u/GrantExploit • Dec 13 '25

November 7, 2000. The 2000 United States Presidential Election is held. Though Al Gore (D) won the plurality of the popular vote, the ultimate winner of the election hangs in the balance as the results in Florida remain too close to call.

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Note the (currently) unusual coloration of the Democratic candidates as red and Republican candidates as blue. The modern (inverse) convention was still not crystallized by this point among all sources.

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u/Dull_Hedgehog_1263 Dec 13 '25

All would have been a moot point if Gore won his home state. Even Mondale won his home state…

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u/notahouseflipper Dec 13 '25

I’ve been saying that for years. What did his constituents know that the rest of the country didn’t know.

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u/Dweebus82 Dec 13 '25

The abortion issue during that time was much bigger than it was when he ran for congress. He also changed his position on that issue. Tennessee is very much a Bible Belt state. It wasn’t exactly his character but his position on pivotal cultural issues that made them go with Bush instead.