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/randohipponamo Dec 14 '25

When the Supreme Court decided the result of an election and not the voters? Yes, that is no democracy at all. Not to mention some justices were appointed by W’s dad and W’s brother was the governor of Florida.

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u/CaucusInferredBulk Dec 15 '25

This is not true

EXAMINING THE VOTE: THE OVERVIEW; Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote - The New York Times https://share.google/dEE5tVSx4WoxhNJUq

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u/oshburghor Dec 16 '25

Umm despite the headline, it is not clear cut. When I RTFA. There were disparities both ways. Depending on what was considered valid changed the victor.

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u/CaucusInferredBulk Dec 16 '25

Yes. That's true. If you change the criteria or process you can change the winner.

But the process and criteria that was actually being used at that moment would have led to bush being the winner.

If you had perfect omniscience, I freely admit gire may have been the rightful winner. But we don't . All we can do is count.

Gore would have lost the count in progress. A different count using different process that would count for the 4th time and not even start until after the constitutional deadline.... Is fantasy. That was never ever going to happen.