Within the Margin of Error: Yet Another President Gore Timeline

d32123

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I was only eight years old on Election Day in 2000. The events that unfolded that night and the following months would have significant impacts on everyone's lives and would forever shape the 21st century. A lot has happened in the eleven plus years since then, and it makes you wonder what if.

What if Al Gore had won the United States Presidential Election of 2000?

The election was very close, and a plausible point of divergence is very easy to come by. Florida, the deciding state, was won by Bush by a mere 537 votes (recounts aside). With nearly six million votes cast in the state, 537 is well within the margin of error. What if, in some alternate universe, the initial count in Florida had shown that Gore had won instead, by, let's say, 537 votes?

Welcome to the world of Within the Margin of Error: Yet Another President Gore Timeline.

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d32123

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PRESIDENT GORE
Florida pushes Vice President over the top with bare majority

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BUSH REFUSES TO CONCEDE, FLORIDA TO RE-COUNT VOTES

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DEADLINE EXTENDED! OR IS IT?
Court accepts Gore request to extend by-hand re-count deadline in some precincts, Bush to appeal to Supreme Court

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APPEAL DROPPED AS GORE LEADS BY 154 VOTES
Failure to extend deadlines would result in Gore victory. Bush final hope rests in mis-marked ballots.


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THE VOTE'S IN: GORE WINS!
Despite re-count, Gore manages to still win Florida by 270 votes, wins election with 291 electoral votes

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d32123

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2000 ELECTION: BY THE NUMBERS

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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. / Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (D) -291 EV - 48.4%
George Walker Bush / Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney - 246 EV - 47.9%

House of Representatives
Republicans - 221 (-2)
Democrats - 212 (+1)
Independents - 2

Senate
Democrats - 50 (-4)
Republicans - 50 (+4)
(Democrats control Senate until January 20th through tie-breaker Vice President Al Gore)


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d32123

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Admiral Ackbar said:
Don't forget that the Governor of Connecticut was Republican at the time, so when he appoints Joe Lieberman's replacement, the Senate would swing to 51-49 Republican.
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*resumes researching*

I'll have him appoint Nancy Johnson in January.
 
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Corbell Mark IV

A minor aside: By having the recount extended only in some precincts, that means that when someone takes the time for a state wide recount, Bush will be found to have won more votes state wide.

This would lead to a similar taint to Gore's administration as we saw for Bush, only from the other side.

And similarly increased levels of partisanship bitterness.

Until 9-11 "honeymoon" period. Unless you butterfly that away somehow.:)
 

kclcmdr

Since you have Al Gore as President..

Will he follow up on the Intel mess that might have mentioned that Foreign Agents from the same group that attack'd the first Twin Towers is inside the U.S.A. and planning something big and will President Al Gore have the Intel Assets go after them to avoid 9/11 and go after the foes that are hiding in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...?
 

BlairWitch749

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Gore not coming out of 9/11 (assuming it happens anyway) with horrific political damage would be a miricle... the people have been in place for more than 8 years at that point with multiple terror events having been conducted without getting more aggressive on the issue... questions will come from congress; after the 93 bombing and the Cole how could you not take terrorism more seriously

Gore could easily find himself political crippled without the Bush my guys haven't been confirmed and I just got here excuse
 

Admiral Ackbar

BlairWitch749 said:
after the 93 bombing and the Cole how could you not take terrorism more seriously
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I would hope that with a Gore Presidency there would be some retaliation for the Cole bombing. We have to remember that while Al Qaeda was suspected, the government didn't know for certain they were behind it until early 2001. Clinton didn't do anything because it occurred less than a month before the election, and then you had the lame duck period, so I doubt he wanted to start something when a new administration was just about to take over. Plus, I remember the Republicans screaming "wag the dog" when he ordered a strike during the Lewinsky scandal, just imagine what they'd be screaming if he did something days before an election, or while the recount was going on.

Since Gore would have been there during the lame duck period, they could have drawn up a plan and waited until he took over to follow through on it. I doubt it would have been similar to OTL where absolutely nothing was done in response to the attack. Clarke would have stayed on in a Cabinet level position so he would be bringing up the terror situation in every meeting, instead of running around trying to get the amdinistrations attention for most of 2001. 9/11 may not have been prevented, but the Gore administration would have been much more engaged on the terrorism threat than the Bush crew was prior to the attack.
 

Paul V McNutt

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If 9/11 happens Gore gets the same political benefits Bush did. I wrote two President Gore TL. One where he wins by spending the last day campaigning in New Hampshire and winning that state's crucial four electoral votes. In my D.B.W.I President George W Bush, he wins because Puerto Rico voted for statehood in 1994.
 

Paul V McNutt

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With an unfriendly congress, Gore would have difficult time getting his program passed. There would be no Bush tax cut, so the debt would be lower today.
 

SLCer

The most interesting thing about the potential Gore TL (outside the handling of 9-11, obviously) would be the impact of the 2001 recession. The growth out of the early Clinton-Bush recession of the 21st Century was minimal and nearly cost Bush reelection even though, at the time, we were fighting two wars and he still had relative political cover because of those wars (Iraq was iffy, but it didn't really go to all hell until two years after the presidential election).

How do Gore's policies impact the post-recession growth, because, from '01-'03, the United States saw more months with job losses than job gains?

With no tax cuts, which ballooned the deficit, what happens to the economy? Is Gore able to push through a stimulus package to help aid the economy?

That recession was going to happen regardless who was president. Of course, the fact we didn't come out of the '01 recession with a robust economy like we did after the last recession ('91) was damaging. But what steps could have been made to maybe put in a stronger economic foundation that leads to more job growth, a booming economy and a situation where we don't see catastrophe in 2008?
 
Pyeknu494

Pyeknu494

Paul V McNutt said:
If 9/11 happens Gore gets the same political benefits Bush did. I wrote two President Gore TL. One where he wins by spending the last day campaigning in New Hampshire and winning that state's crucial four electoral votes. In my D.B.W.I President George W Bush, he wins because Puerto Rico voted for statehood in 1994.
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Paul, do you have the links to those timelines?
 
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