2000, Al Gore would've handled 9/11 carefully and wisely, unlike the cowboy approach GWB took. The sympathy felt towards us, combined with the "sensitive" policies of Gore would have lifted our image throughout the world. Al Queda would not be recruiting people. The Iraq War never happens. Our focus would be on terrorists in the already captured Afgahnistan, and Osama is caught within 2 years of 9/11. Gore goes on to be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in history. Kerry succeeds him, and decades of democratic rule over all 3 branches of the gov't ensues. In that time, gays gain the right to marry, minimum wage is raised, and the world is at one of it's most peaceful times as all civilized nations originally sympathetic to America after 9/11 cooperate in a global anti-terrorism policy due to the enhanced friendship between America and other nations.
So that's the Democratic view of the world? Pretty scary stuff. The real results of a Gore presidency would have been quite different from that, especially since the man has shown he's a stark-raving lunatic.
If I could change anything, I would have opted for more decisive leadership prior to the Civil War, which might have led to a resolution of the slavery issue without war. That is one issue that still resonates negatively through our society.
