If you flipped the statewide results from 2000 in Ohio, Oregon, New Mexico and Iowa, the 2000 election would have resulted in an electoral college tie with likely recounts occurring in both Florida (OTL 547 vote margin) and New Mexico (OTL margin 366 votes).
Now, holding aside the question of how Gore flips Ohio, which had a 165,000 vote margin, the 2 other states, Iowa and Oregon, were exceedingly close, with 4144 and 6622 vote margins, respectively.
In this scenario, Bush would have managed a tie in the electoral college with a less than 1000 vote margin in 2 states, but would have won when the election was decided by the GOP-controlled House. By winning Ohio, Gore's popular vote margin would have likely been even larger (850,000 or so if you simply flip results in the 4 states)
The Senate, by the way, wound up evenly divided at 50 seats for each party (Jeffords didn't flip until June), which leaves the outcome of the Vice-Presidential contest in the Senate with some interesting possibilities...
Now within this scenario, what thoughts do you have on the effect such a scenario would have had on Bush's legitimacy, the impact on American politics going forward, etc.? Would a Dem VP candidate contest the race in the Senate or allow Bush to have his VP choice?