Without 9/11, does Al Gore run and win in 2004?

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Without 9/11, does Al Gore run and win in 2004?

I mean, there appears to have been a widespread feeling among Democrats that Al Gore was cheated out of the Presidency by the Supreme Court in 2000. However, 9/11 significantly changed the political atmosphere and caused President Bush to experience a massive popularity boost.

Without 9/11 and Bush's resulting popularity boost, would Gore have ran and won in 2004?

Also, here is another factor to consider: Hillary Clinton. If Bush is looking vulnerable in 2004, might she want to run against him that year?

After all, if Gore wins in 2004 and wins re-election in 2008, Hillary would have to compete with Gore's VP in 2012--at which point she might think that she will be viewed as being "old news."

Thoughts?
 
Al Gore is more likely to wait until 2008, when memory of his bad 2000 campaign is long lost. Gore could lose in 2004 if voters still remember 2000. Hillary Clinton made a promise that she would not run for President until re-elected to the United States Senate, so she won't run in 2004 no matter what, nor is it likely that she challenges Gore's VP from 2005-2013 (maybe Howard Dean or Russ Feingold). I think that if Gore won in 2004, he loses in 2008 to a Republican (most likely John McCain) due to hurricane season and the recession, which is probably less intense than OTL. Hillary Clinton runs for President in ATL 2012 against the incumbent Republican and wins because the economy was still hurting between 2009-2013. If John McCain is the Republican President elected in 2008, then he'd be especially vulnerable when it comes to the economy, and he most likely would have committed the United States to military interventions in the Libyan and Syrian Arab Springs, which wouldn't go over well with an American public war fatigued from Afghanistan and Iraq.
 
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