George W. Bush humiliates Al Gore by winning Tennessee- 2000 Election

[puttputtking]

He also won Clinton's home state of Arkansas.

[UncleMikeNJ]

So? Gore won Bush's home State. Connecticut.

Gore also won Jeb Bush's home State. Florida. Alas, Gore doesn't have a brother, let alone one who was Governor of a close State.

[chwood1979]

@UncleMikeNJ WOW the hatred is still present!

[Mikey77B]

How do you lose your home state...???

[TheOusooner56]

@Mikey77B but not becoming a likeable politician

[TheJayEffkay]

Karl Rove the genius strikes !

[YovilleProductions1]

Ok, really? putting "humiliate" in the title was disrespectful. There have been plenty of presidents that have lost to there own states... And tennessee is a very high republican state, Al Gore was a democrat. and Gore actually won florida.

[Hello59239]

I think Al Gore's heavily environmentalist platform alienated some of the voters. But even winners have lost their birth states(George HW Bush lost Massachussetts, Dubya lost CT)

[rick9565]

George Bush humiliates the country as president.

[lakersownsuns]

bush embarassed gore by winning his home state, and the bush proceeded to embarass himself for the next 8 years.

[TheVideo5094]

Gore was born in DC Bush in Connecticut

[Claronium780]

I don't know why the people of Tennessee were stupid enough to vote for Bush ! ESPECIALLY since Gore was from there ....

[redletter2008]

@Claronium780 Perhaps they didn't think it was a stupid choice. Historically, Tennessee has been a conservative state & has trended Republican in presidential elections since 1980 (Clinton/Gore were only Dems to win state - in '92 & '96 - since 1976). Had Gore simply won his own home state, the election would have been clinched. His humiliating loss in TN cleared the path for Bush's eventual win. Since Gore NEVER won FL (except in CBS's mind), he NEVER had the electoral votes to win.

[kris01987]

I don't want a president who can't win his own state. . . PERIOD!

[harj2009]

@kris01987 oh wow well done at least bush won in texas and he was such a fuck up

[BillyBlues34]

one day bush will be seen as a good president. people hate him because he had the marbles to fight terrorists. certainly better than obama.

[MSG685]

@BillyBlues34 i dont think that will ever happen.

[Lab356]

He didn't lose it by much. But still lolz

[CountryTonite2007]

If President Clinton's thing with Monica didn't get public Vice President Gore would've been able to campaign against W from the whitehouse.

[deathtotruthers]

CNN was so obviously trying its hardest to get Gore elected that night. And it nearly worked. They cost Bush New Mexico themselves, and created the Florida problem by repeatedly saying the polls were closed when they were open for another hour in strong conservative areas in the panhandle. They're weren't even trying to hide their bias that night - Gore should have been paying them.

[EsotericDesi]

White Trailer Trash of TN didn't vote for Gore and got shit in return... they're backward, illiterate, narrow minded assholes as they have always been... What was wrong w/ Al Gore? Oh! I see, Al Gore should never have offered us stronger economy, continuing surplus, better education... all things that the pricks voting for Bush hated...

[CountryTonite2007]

@EsotericDesi Amen to that....

[mr300ism]

@CountryTonite2007=KEEP SUCKING HILLARY CLINTON''S BALLS

[mr300ism]

@EsotericDesi=TRASH YOUR MOM

LIBERAL BITCH

[mr300ism]

@EsotericDesi=BITCH

[curlyfry1106]

chilling

[23heap]

It was Clintons fault that Gore didn't win in Tennessee...exit polling showed 60% viewed Clinton unfavourably, and of that 60%, 74% supported Bush.

Keep in mind, the people had last elected Gore to the Senate in 1990...

[giggshenrik]

The world would have been a totally differnt place right now if Gore had won...

[RichmondVAbuzz]

@giggshenrik yea, it would suck more

[jgreen3900]

@giggshenrik yeah. and worse off.

[TheDukeljk]

@giggshenrik Yeah I am glad that moron Gore didn't win.

[jayNicks10]

@giggshenrik it would be different for the better.

[h8tebred]

I would find it pathetic if I could not win my home state.

[kcwlf29]

I agree and folks want to talk about how Bush "stole" that election. If the people who elected him to the Senate would not vote for him as President , then that should say alot!

[WilliamRowlett]

@h8tebred I agree. Losing my home state would make me feel like a fool. But this sociopathic joke doesn't have a conscience and this embarrasses him not in the least. Instead, he put us through 30 plus days of pure hell going through recount after recount in Florida which Bush won every time. Now the Global warming guru with a liberal arts degree from Harvard is french-kissing a masseuse in a hotel room at 11:00 pm. What a sad sack of crap.

[Claronium780]

@h8tebred well he did win the popular vote, that should be a little bit of a consolation.....it was fairly close

[h8tebred]

@Claronium780

You have a point, I just think one of the qualifications ought to be for both the president and vice president to win their home states. Even John Edwards could not help John Kerry win the state of NC in 2004. As for popular votes, the electoral vote unfortunately has been in place long before GW was born. The only problem with the popular vote, CA and NY could have more votes than the whole country.

[Cnd1867]

@h8tebred Ya unless you were a liberal democrat in the south or a conservative republican in Maine

[Hello59239]

@h8tebred

George W. Bush was born in Connecticut and he didn't carry Connecticut.

[redletter2008]

@Hello59239 How embarrassing for Gore. If he had only won his own home state (where his daddy was a US Senator as well), he could have wrapped up the election. But noooooo - he loses TN and the entire election in the process. Considering that the US economy was booming & Clinton was popular at the time, there is NO reason why this election should have been so close. In '88 (under similar circumstances) GOP Vice President GHW Bush slaughtered Dem nominee Dukakis (426 electoral votes to 112).

[YovilleProductions1]

@redletter2008 How is the 2000 election similar to the 88 election? In 88 George H W Bush Won the Election by a landslide, But in 2000 It was extremely close For Dubya Bush.

[redletter2008]

@YovilleProductions1 Similar in these ways: '88 & '00 saw sitting, two-term VPs as nominees for one of the parties (Bush for GOP in '88; Gore for Dems in '00). Both elections were pretty much referendums on the previous eight years. In '88, voters considered Bush based on the Reagan years; Gore in '00 considered based on Clinton's 2 terms. In '88 & '00, the US economy was booming. This typically is a big advantage to incumbent candidate (Bush in 88 won big; but Gore's race was oddly close).

[Jimmmeeehhh]

@h8tebred If you were a democrat in Texas, no you wouldnt. What a stupid thing to say.

[jamesallegro]

Thank God President George W. Bush.

[MiamiIndianTribe]

george w cunt

[kcwlf29]

Wow, thats such an intelligent comment!

[right92626]

you will be dead faggot

I am glad you dummies were wiped out

[MiamiIndianTribe]

ok you fucking nigger

[right92626]

fucking virgin

[MiamiIndianTribe]

christian

[camposi]

america and germany have something in commun - they vote for the biggest idiots to reign their country ..............

[right92626]

you're half right, you Commie virgin dickhead

Barrack Odumbo is an idiot, one-termer, and a disaster.......

GOP sweep tonight

[right92626]

if you can't win your state fat Gore, you don't deserve to be president

[rushindulen]

right, that's a totally logical argument... yeh right

[vccstudents]

If the popular vote only decided the election, candidates would only have to win a few metropolitan cities like New York, LA, Chicago, etc. and get elected. This is why our Constitutional authors created the Electoral College.

[fenderboy88]

the electoral college is flawed,the popular vote to me matters more than what state you win,it works differently in my country and in britain

[Mage13246]

How does the popular vote matter more? When the electoral College was developed they said "the candidate with the most ELECTORAL votes wins the election". The popular vote helps win those electoral votes in each state. You can still win the election and not win the Popular count. Please get your facts straight.

[ReuWil]

Indeed. The right to vote in a Presidential Election is granted by the legislature of your individual State, and you are participating in a state election when voting for President.

[Mage13246]

You live in Brittian. We have the elctoral college for a fair election. I take back what I said in the nd of my 1st comment. If you learned about American History there is a reason why we have the electoral college.

[ReuWil]

Your country and Britain don't have States, and don't even have separation of powers as your chief executive is a member of your legislature - you don't elect your chief executive or head of state at all. The PM is chosen by the majority party who wins the most seats in Parliament and the Monarch is chosen by Royal Succession - so I'm not sure why you are arguing about the "popular vote" being so much more important in Britain and Australia.

[gallowspole]

stupid bush that jew

[Charbax]

Bush stole the 2000 election. Everyone knows that.

[OsamaBinLadenEmpire]

No he didn't. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by 327 votes. It was one of the closest elections in history.

[Charbax]

You are truely an idiot if you really think that. Bush brother stole the election, blocked tens of thousands of black people at the polls, destroyed and hid tens of thousands of ballots, they did in FACT not do any recount in the whole state of florida, only very partially did a few counties do the recount. For each recount, Al Gore got more and more votes. The supreme court decided to STOP the recount before Al Gore was in front.

[OsamaBinLadenEmpire]

Bush beat Al Gore fair and square. The official report from the US Justice Department says Bush beat Al Gore by 327 votes in Florida. Also, black people being blocked from the polls in Florida is a myth- there is no credible evidence to prove it.

[Charbax]

Bush stole the election, it's a proven fact.

[ReuWil]

It's not a proven fact because it isn't true. Get over it. The fact you are still bellowing about it even now, after you successfully won the White House back. Gore never got "more and more votes." The media finished the so-called "recounts" and proved that Gore could not have won. Time to move on with life and accept the fact you lost fair and square - Gore could not even carry his home state, he sure didn't carry Florida.

[Mage13246]

If Bush stole the elction they would have impeached him in his 1st year. How is Bush stealing this election a proven facT? You're just pising and moaning about your loss because you have a dark heart filled with hate toward Republicans. It is not proven that Bush stole the election. There's a reason why he wasn't impeached.....There was nothing to impeach him for. Of course the Dems weren't going to Impeach him because they knew they would've lost the trial.

[Charbax]

The Supreme Court are Republicans. How could the democrats win anything with that supreme court being totally biased and hand picked by the last bunch of Republican presidents. There are TONS of proofs that Bush stole both 2000 and 2004. In 2004 he openly disenfranchised voters in his brothers (Governor) state of Florida, in 2004 there is proof that electronic voting was rigged in key states with no paper trail.

[Mage13246]

Well 1st off....Wasn't Clinton still in office? So Im sure he appointed some of these Judges. It isn't republicans....it's you not being able to take a loss.

[teenageindiefan]

clinton replaced two liberal supreme court justices - there was already a 5-4 conservative bias. the left wing of the court cited "fairness" in calling for a recount, whilst the right wing went off on some half-assed interpretation of the equal protections clause.equal protections?

if gore had won florida, there would have definitely been a reocunt. you cannot deny that.

[Mage13246]

Bill Clinton appointed those Judges when he was still in office. So yeah this should be saying something to you.

[mulax01]

I agree, I think the entire system is flawed to have someone go into office who got fewer votes- but it wasn't "stolen" as every Bush-hating stupid liberal believes.

Still, as a conservative I think the winner of the popular vote should win the election

[ReuWil]

If you think that that you are not thinking "as a conservative" to go against the very ideas that are the foundation of our government - that the people of the States have a voice in who becomes president, not just a few geographic areas that have dense populations.

The popular vote is a statistic that is being tallied by the media. It is not official and has no meaning. The election for President is 51 separate state elections (counting DC).

[cwood4ever]

Not me