Many Campaign 2000 alternate scenarios have been created. However, this one deals with if Al Gore had pursued a different strategy in dealing with the lazy and vindictive press, in embracing President Clinton's campaigning help, and applying pressure to George W. Bush through the spring and summer, rather than waiting until after the convention. Help from other members can be included. I shall start at the beginning.
-May 1999: The press and GOP begin making hay of Gore's interview with Wolf Blitzer, turning his statements about the legislation concerning the Internet into "I invented the Internet." Gore and his campaign are bewildered about the press using this moment to refer to him as a "phony exaggerator", especially when many of the same pundits had written about his role. After much deliberation, the Gore campaign staff decides to try and spike the spin and work to craft a response.