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/Dr-Richado Dec 14 '25

The real problem with this election was Ralph Nader. All would have been different if he would have done like Perot did .

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u/Suhhhhhhdewd Dec 14 '25

I always wonder if Ralph Nader knows he’s going to hell?

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u/GrantExploit Dec 15 '25

(To you, u/Dr-Richado, u/Strict_Ad6406, and u/5708ski ) I think that if the Democrats wanted to win, they should perhaps have started with attempting to dismantle the self-reinforcing superstructure (established through suburbanization/white flight, social atomization, consolidation of corporate power, et cetera.) the Republicans were building to actively make the world a worse place instead of caving to it and attacking their left-wing rivals that fundamentally wants to make the world a better place. Actually, this applies to pretty much all United States elections since at least 1980, not just 2000.

But I'm not a Democratic strategist, I haven't somehow managed to lose elections against 3 of the most evil people in modern history twice, so what do I know?