If Gore wasn't in touch with Tennessee, then how did he get elected to represent the state in the Senate?
If gun control and abortion cost Gore Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc., then why didn't those issues cost Clinton those states in 1996?
And why should Lewinskygate have affected Gore? The Republican fixation on it actually backfired in the 1998 elections. And it was Clinton who received oral sex from Lewinsky, not Gore.
the GOP simply started the "we are the party of moral values" BS that they've continued until today. Unfortunately, it works quite well for them.