Battleground map on 11/5/2000 (NYT)

[Comrade Funk]

George W. Bush (Republican): 222
Al Gore (Democratic): 191
Tossup: 125

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

That moment when you remember that Delaware being called for Gore was a "big deal".

[OSR stands with Israel]

OH was considered Safe R and Delaware was Lean R wow , and I thought WV was a surprise

[morgankingsley]

I love how Arkansas was a swing state. I know why but still...

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

That moment when you remember that Delaware being called for Gore was a "big deal".

I still remember Delaware and Missouri being your ultimate bellwethers. How times change.

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

Was Bush leading in the polls in Delaware

[DeSantis2024]

George W. Bush (Republican): 222
Al Gore (Democratic): 191
Tossup: 125

So weird seeing safe republican VA,NC,CO,NV. Even weirder is seeing DE tilting bush and purple OR,WA,TN,MO,AR 😂

[One Term Floridian]

The state-by-state polls were definitely a little...off that year. Granted, this was the election that brought us the red v blue divide that we know today (just give or take a handful of states) so it must have been fairly difficult to forecast.

[BigVic]

George W. Bush (Republican): 222
Al Gore (Democratic): 191
Tossup: 125

CO a strong Bush

[super6646]

How was Delaware lean bush? Wtf?

[538Electoral]

Interesting.

[El Betico]

So was West Virginia in some ways expected?

[One Term Floridian]

So was West Virginia in some ways expected?

Yeah. At this point it was clear Bush had poured in more resources in the state and that Gore had essentially been caught asleep at the wheel. Gore’s environmental record was also widely known at this point so Bush’s attacks were clearly sticking.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

It's so weird to see Purple Pacific Northwest just 20 years ago. Especially Washington

[bagelman]

https://www.yapms.com/app/?m=9a2q

How was Bush able to do so well in Ohio?

It's so weird to see Purple Pacific Northwest just 20 years ago. Especially Washington

The older order of Republican total dominance in the west was taking time to phase out.

[Gracile]

Delaware still doesn't make a whole lot of sense here considering how it voted in 1996 - it has a similar pattern to New Jersey which NYT rated Safe D.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Bush was up by 4-5 points nationally and ended up spending the last few days campaigning in California, while Gore spend his last few days in Florida.

The Gore team had a unexpectedly strong union backed turnout drive, which caught Republicans off guard.

[Calthrina950]

It's interesting how Nevada was seen as Safe R, and Bush ultimately won it by only 4%, failing to obtain a majority. And the days in which Colorado and Virginia were Safe R are long since gone.

[Motorcity]

Bush was up by 4-5 points nationally and ended up spending the last few days campaigning in California, while Gore spend his last few days in Florida.

The Gore team had a unexpectedly strong union backed turnout drive, which caught Republicans off guard.

Its crazy how much the country changed in just four years. In 2000, Bush was campaigning in California. In 2004, people joked that California would rather join Canada than have another term of Bush...

[South Dakota Democrat]

Bush was up by 4-5 points nationally and ended up spending the last few days campaigning in California, while Gore spend his last few days in Florida.

The Gore team had a unexpectedly strong union backed turnout drive, which caught Republicans off guard.

Its crazy how much the country changed in just four years. In 2000, Bush was campaigning in California. In 2004, people joked that California would rather join Canada than have another term of Bush...

It's funny, since Bush did better in CA in 2004 than he did in 2000.

[Joe McCarthy Was Right]

Most of the 2000 election pages are gone. The RCP average was about Bush +2.8. "Portrait of America" (which became Rasmussen) was looking at Bush getting around 351 electoral votes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20001024053306/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html
https://www.longwood.edu/staff/hardinds/Politics/Nov6.jpg