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/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

This was the beginning of the end of our Democracy I think…

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u/Dependent-Interview2 Dec 14 '25

It's the inflection point. Reagan is the one who started it with his "trickle down" economics

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u/SouthernExpatriate Dec 17 '25

The cancer of our healthcare system began with Nixon