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Wait, wait, let me clarify. Now, as anyone who's spent even a little time of this site knows, there's many a thread about a scenario where Al Gore won the 2000 Presidential Election instead of John McCain. However, this scenario is different. George W. Bush, a name i'd honestly be surprised if anyone outside of Texas still remembers anymore, challenged McCain in the Republican primaries, and may well have beaten him, had it not been for Bush's campaign being implicated in a dirty poll scandal in South Carolina, something which McCain jumped on. So, in honor of the 9th anniversary of McCain's own death, I ask: what if that scandal had never happened, and Bush had won the primaries? Could he have beaten Gore? The 2000 election was famously close, coming down to 1500 votes in Ohio, and a mere 15 votes in Florida, a fact which no doubt contributed to Gore's appointment as head of The EPA, shortly before it's upgrade to a full Cabinet-level position, in addition to the spirit of bipartisanship. Could Bush have beaten those odds? Or would Gore have pushed the needle just enough the other way? Now, of course, famously, McCain's presidency, which had initially been focused on reform, mostly in the fields of campaign finance, immigration, energy, and various others, soon evolved into the field where McCain really shone: foreign affairs. The 9/11 attacks, which killed 1402 people, and, by all accounts, would have killed far more had it not been for McCain's suspicions regarding an attack on American soil, soon led to war in Afghanistan. Then, of course, there was the conflict in Korea afterwards...How would Bush have handled these things, if he got in office at all? Would we see the "New Conservative" movement at all? Your thoughts?
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