What you can say is this: Gore's 560000 vote margin over Bush came entirely from surplus votes in NY and CA, not from a half-million plus majority spread throughout the US.
Al Gore really was the president of choice for the bicoastal extremes of the US, and nowhere else (the Upper Midwest outside IL gave him a plurality). A President Gore, if you will, would not have given a crap about 3/5ths of this nation's states.
That's certainly true. Conversely I doubt Bush cares much about those same bicoastal extremes.
