Run-on sentences are teh shiz-nit.
Also, there is next to no chance of the Supreme Court giving the presidency to Gore if the numbers are the same as IOTL. Your best hope is to figure out a swing state (probably not Florida; it's best to avoid that debacle entirely) that could have easily gone from Bush to Gore so that Gore has a legitimate majority in the Electoral College. New Mexico, Iowa, and Wisconsin were all very close.
There's really a big hunk of misunderstanding out there about what the Supreme Court actually did in Bush v Gore. They didn't really declare Bush the winner (as that isn't their constitutional duty), but they declared that recounts had to end in Florida, effectively sealing the numbers in Bush's favor. The effect is surprisingly similar, and it was quite shady how everything went down, but technically everything still went by the way the Constitution says it's supposed to -- i.e., the Electoral College having the only
actual role in electing the president.