I don't recall - but nobody doubts that Clinton won his election. Whenever there is major third party candidacy, the winner takes less than 50%. Also, there are more voters now than there were 4 and 8 years ago, and turnout this year was much higher than the last 2 elections.
The reality here is that Bush may have pulled in 50 Million votes, but Gore pulled in 540,000 MORE votes than Bush did. And were this not an electoral college contest, Gore's lead would have been even higher, because he would have focused his campaign entirely on urban and suburban areas in the most highly populated states in the USA, where he ran strongest, rather than trying to appeal to gun-loving union members and so-called soccer moms in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Once again -- Bush will live in the White House for the next 4 years, but you will never convince me that he "won" this election, that more people in Florida voted for him than for Gore, or that his post-election behavior (and that of his henchmen, like Jim Baker) was "presidential". The cloud over his presidency is one of his own making. |
