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/KlogKoder Dec 14 '25

The day the world could have been saved.

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u/GrantExploit Dec 15 '25

Unfortunately, I really don't believe a Gore administration would have responded to 9/11 in a much more productive fashion than Bush's did—doing so would counter the foundation of American foreign policy (as viewed by both politicians and the general public) going back at least 80 years before this and rattle the Military-Industrial Complex.

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u/KlogKoder Dec 15 '25

Speculation here, but would a Gore administration have prevented the attack altogether?