Florida, Bill McCollum has defeated Bill Nelson.
OTL, Nelson won by 5% - 2,989,487 to 2,705,348. How does he lose while Gore carries the state?
In Delaware, in a surprise, William Roth has secured his re-election.
OTL, Roth lost by 12%; 142,891 to 181,566. What changed that?
but let's start in Michigan. Incumbent Senator Abraham we can project has been comfortably re-elected over challenger Congresswoman Debbie Sabenow.
OTL, Abraham lost by 2%; 1,994,693 to 2,061,952. What changed that?
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we are surprised to report that we cannot, at this time, call the race between longtime Senator Edward Kennedy and Republican Jack Robinson.
OTL, Kennedy won that race with 1.9M to 334K for the Republican, who barely outdrew the Libertarian (308K). What could possibly happen to change 800K votes? Did Kennedy brag on TV about having triple-teamed Marilyn Monroe with his brothers, after which they killed her?
Bill Frist, Doctor Bill Frist, has been defeated by Jeff Clark.
OTL, Frist won by 34%, 1,255,444 to 621,152. What did Frist do, distribute a video of him performing third-term abortions while giggling?
In New Jersey, that open seat has been won by Bob Franks, defeating the financially powerful Jon Corzine.
OTL, Corzine won by 4%, 1,511,237 to 1,420,267, so that flip isn't particularly weird.
First Lady Hillary Clinton has been defeated in her bid to become New York's next Senator, with Republican Rick Lazio taking the seat in a close election.
OTL, Clinton won by 14%, 3,562,415 to 2,724,589. What did Clinton do to lose, admit to murdering Vince Foster?
CNN can project that [Bush] has won in the State of New Jersey..."
OTL, Gore won NJ by 16%. What changed?
In Wisconsin, John Gillespie has won over Herb Kohl.
OTL, Kohl won by 25%, 1,563,238 to 940,744. What changed? Did Kohl get caught pissing on Vince Lombardi's grave?
In Minnesota, Rod Grams has thwarted a strong attempt at his seat, winning reelection by a half a percent.
OTL, Grams lost by 6%, 1,047,474 to 1,181,553. So that flip is not
too implausible.
Slade Gorton has won re-election in Washington as well.
OTL, Gorton lost by less than 0.1%, 1,197,208 to 1,199,437. So that flip is
quite plausible.
Brian Schweitzer has won in Montana
OTL, Schweitzer lost by 3%, 194,430 to 208,082. So that flip is plausible.
"This gives Governor Bush 49% of the vote, and the Vice-President 47% of the vote..."
This is a substantial change from OTL, and very hard to square with Gore winning the electoral college.
OTL, Gore narrowly carried IA (0.4%), ME (5.1%), MI (6.2%), MN (2.4%), NM (0.1%), OR (0.4%), PA (4.2%), WA (5.4%), and WI (0.3%).
Your outcome leaves IA, MN, NM, and PA unchanged, and flips to Gore six states that Bush won: AR (5.4%), FL (0.01%), MO (3.3%), NC (12.8%), TN (3.8%), and WV (8.1%).
And for some reason flips NJ, which Gore carried by 15.8%?
And the PoD has to be after October 16, 2000, when Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash that would be butterflied.
It's all very cute, but
extremely implausible.