What Did Lieberman Add to the Ticket?

[J. J.]

Lieberman helped Gore come within 600 votes of president.  He possibly delivered PA.  I would say the Lieberman was one of the five best picks in the last 40 years.

[J. J.]

Lieberman helped Gore come within 600 votes of president.  He possibly delivered PA.  I would say the Lieberman was one of the five best picks in the last 40 years.

He may have delivered Penn but he lost Gore Tenn.

No, I think Gore lost Gore Tennessee.  I don't think Lieberman had anything to do with it.  Gore was popular in Tennessee when he was a conservative pro-life Democrat.  When he became a liberal Democrat and the post child for NARAL, he lost a lot of his Tennessee support.  By 2000, he hadn't held an office elected statewide for 8 years, and he had changed quite a bit, especially during Clinton's second term.  I think the Lewinsky scandal, and Gore's strong defense of Clinton, is what cost him the south, including Tennessee.  Lieberman had nothing to do with that.

Agreed.  Lieberman didn't cost Gore any state and may have given him some.  Most people who would vote against Lieberman, because he is Jewish, are very unlikely to vote for Gore, because Gore is a liberal (or at least packaged himself as one during that election).

[J. J.]

Lieberman cost him the Muslim vote.

Not in large enough numbers and, with Bush the elder, that attracted some of the Muslim vote.  Further, the states where the Muslim vote is a factor, MI, NJ, even NY and IA, Gore carried.