If Gore had won in 2000 what would his presidency look like and would he win in 2004?

What it says on the tin, assuming that he never enters Iraq and the economy was performing well I would assume he would manage to win the 2004 election. If Gore only entered Afghanistan and focused on that region, he might have been able to make much better gains.

If he did win in 2004 however then the Democrats would loose extremely badly in 2008. The economy would enter the Great Recession, their would be extreme fatigue with the Democrats due to them being in power for sixteen years and(This is possible, but not certain) but I believe that Saddam Hussein's government being unstable could have lead to the Arab Spring starting earlier, giving the appearance that Gore's presidency had led to extreme chaos abroad.

What does everyone else think, who do you think the Republicans have run in 2004 and possibly 2008 if Al Gore had won the presidency in 2000.

What do you believe his presidency have looked like compared to George Bush's.
 
If Gore wins due to the recount being allowed to continue and handing him the Presidency, I think the GOP will be just as bitter if not more bitter than the Democrats were after the Supreme Court stopped the recount, giving Bush the win. So Gore is going to have a tough time getting things through a Republican house and Senate (Lieberman's vacancy, IRC, would be filled by a Republican Governor and Jeffords might not leave the GOP with Gore in the White House). A tax cut is passed, but is smaller than OTL and is targeted more towards the middle class. Some sort of education reform is passed as well, but I doubt Gore would go as far as cutting funds to underperforming schools (I always found that counter productive), but some sort of accountability for failing test scores will be put in to appease the GOP. Social Security is put into a "lockbox" and some sort of prescription drug plan might get passed, but that's all I see getting done domestically.

As for one of the big what ifs, 9/11 most likely still happens. Gore has a smaller "rally around the flag" effect than Bush did OTL meaning it wears off faster and the GOP grills both Clinton and Gore for "weakening America" and "letting us get attacked." Gore responds by invading Afghanistan with more troops and resources than Bush did OTL. This possibly leads to Bin Laden getting captured sooner, but we may also run into some of the same problems as OTL, so we may still be looking at a years long occupation of the country. As for the other big what if, Iraq is not invaded. They probably get bombed a few times, the sanctions get revamped and more are possibly added, but I highly doubt Gore would go to war with the country while we have another war going on in Afghanistan. The GOP gains big in 2002 over this and the economy.

As for the 2004 elections, it would be fairly close, but I think Gore would lose to someone like McCain due to a weak recovery from the "dotcom" bust, a war in Afghanistan with no end in sight that hadn't seen any accomplishments since the early stages of it, and because the GOP would hammer Gore and the Democrats over 9/11 in a way that the Democrats didn't dare do to Bush. On top of that, Gore would be running for a fourth consecutive term for the Democrats, I think there'd be enough voters wanting change to give the GOP the win. Gore would probably be remembered as a slightly above average President, the Bush Sr. to Clinton's Reagan if you will. Someone who offered a steady hand when a steady hand was needed and no one at the time realized it or appreciated it. McCain or whoever goes on to succeed Gore probably goes on to narrowly win in 2008 as I can see the financial crisis happening later without Dubya winning in 2000, but has a second term that is even worse than Dubya's was OTL (think the worst of Bush's second term and the worst of Obama's first term, that how I think 2009-13 would be in this TL), so the Dems win big in 2010 and 2012.
 
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