What if Gore won in 2000?

[Cassandra]

Now that it has been almost twenty years, what would have changed if Gore would have beaten Bush in the electoral college?

How would he have responded to 9/11?
Would we have stayed out of Iraq?
Would he have won reelection in 2004?
Would the financial crisis/Great Recession have played out the same way?
Would Gore have done anything about climate change?
What would the Supreme Court look like today?
etc.

What do you think?

[dw93]

He would've responded to 9/11 by hitting Afghanistan and hitting it harder than Bush did. This mean Bin Laden is likely captured sooner and Al Qaeda is weaker than in real life. With that said, Afghanistan is still likely to be a  thorn in our rear for years on end for one reason or another. Gore stays out of Iraq unless 9/11 is avoided, if it is than there's a slight chance he invades at some point. The sanction are continued and they probably get bombed a few times. Gore likely narrowly loses in 2004 to someone like McCain, which means the Supreme Court stays the same as O'Conner and Rehnquist still would leave the court with a Republican in the White House. Gore winning in 2000 likely delays the financial crisis by a year or two, so incumbent Republican likely wins another term in 2008, only to have a second term even more hellish than Bush 43's was. Gore probably does little if anything with Climate change as the GOP still would control the Congress.

[adamevans]

He would've responded to 9/11 by hitting Afghanistan and hitting it harder than Bush did. This mean Bin Laden is likely captured sooner and Al Qaeda is weaker than in real life. With that said, Afghanistan is still likely to be a  thorn in our rear for years on end for one reason or another. Gore stays out of Iraq unless 9/11 is avoided, if it is than there's a slight chance he invades at some point. The sanction are continued and they probably get bombed a few times. Gore likely narrowly loses in 2004 to someone like McCain, which means the Supreme Court stays the same as O'Conner and Rehnquist still would leave the court with a Republican in the White House. Gore winning in 2000 likely delays the financial crisis by a year or two, so incumbent Republican likely wins another term in 2008, only to have a second term even more hellish than Bush 43's was. Gore probably does little if anything with Climate change as the GOP still would control the Congress.

This, except Gore would invade Iraq and the financial recession would probably happen at roughly the same time.

[Mail-order President]

9/11 still happens which prevents 2004 from becoming 1992 redux.  Gore still barely loses though due to party fatigue.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)/Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) - 290 EV 50.1%
President Al Gore (D-TN)/Vice President Joe Lieberman (D-CT) - 248 EV 49.0%

In 2008, McCain gets clobbered by Hillary.

[SInNYC]

9/11 still happens. Republicans in Congress make the country ungovernable, blaming "12 years of Democratic decimation of the military so that nobody in the world respects us". Gore responds by raising the military budget even more dramatically than W (he was always big on military spending in Congress), exploding the deficit though not quite as much as W did (fewer tax cuts for the rich).  Nothing else happens since  Rs vote down what little Gore proposes.

Gore goes to war in Afghanistan, pretty much the same as W did. But Iraq doesn't happen. Fox News is 24 hours "day n and Democrats are still impotent in getting Bin Laden".

All is moot, as Republicans convince the country that Democrats cant be trusted to keep us safe, and 2004 is a R landslide (McCain?). Democrats pick Liebermann in 2008, but Rs still win big.