Going into Election Night 2000, who did you expect to win?

[Хahar 🤔]

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

Aren't all kids in early elementary school who know anything about politics?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

I cannot believe that you could be anymore hackish than you are now.

Of course I could; I could be you

[HappyWarrior]

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

I cannot believe that you could be anymore hackish than you are now.

Of course I could; I could be you

Goldmine material right there.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

I cannot believe that you could be anymore hackish than you are now.

Of course I could; I could be you

Goldmine material right there.

Why, thank you

[Sasquatch]

I was only 14 at the time and didn't really care one way or the other. I had watched a little bit of the debates and from those I thought Bush would win. Gore just seemed stale and nerdy compared to Bush. That was my political analysis as a 14 year old.

[Franzl]

I was only 14 at the time and didn't really care one way or the other. I had watched a little bit of the debates and from those I thought Bush would win. Gore just seemed stale and nerdy compared to Bush. That was my political analysis as a 14 year old.

which is a correct discription. Bush did and still does seem like the kind of person you'd like to drink a beer with. Unfortunately, some people vote based on those feelings.

[The Hack Hater]

I wasn't too into politics at the time, but I was thinking Bush. Gore's debating skills made him look stupid.

[YRABNNRM]

I was in sixth grade so I have no idea but I remember joking with my friends that we could do whatever we wanted after election day because there was no winner and thus no president, showing that we had no grasp on the political process or the way in which American government worked.

[exopolitician]

I only remember being in Florida and everything being in chaos. My parents were solidly for Bush....so as a youngin I was too [pft...]. I was kinda annoyed with Gore at the time, even tho I ultimately thought he was going to win. Then he didnt...and I was happy for about 5 seconds then my short attention span steered me elsewhere

[RJ]

Thought this was an interesting topic and I'd throw my .02 in:

First, I remember hearing from several sources that Bush would win the popular vote and Gore would win the electoral vote, throwing the results into potential chaos. Hmm...

I thought to myself it wouldn't be even that close. I thought Bush would win easily. I voted for Ralph because I thought Gore's campaign was a real turnoff, but I still was pulling for Gore. Initially, the media put Pennsylvania into Gore's column then pulled it out the same way they did Florida. PA turned out to be an easy win for Gore. Hmm...

I distinctly remember the media also pointing out Gore took New Mexico and that every winning candidate since 1920 had taken that state. It appeared that New Mexico was the bell weather state at that time. Hmm...

Lot of Hmm's from that one, and I didn't even get into that Supreme Court decision or the Susan Harris thing.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

hard to believe that you could be a bigger hack than you are now.

LOL.  You already said that.

I was sure Gore would win, because my parents supported him, and they were never wrong.  Boy, I was even more of a hack in 2000 then I am now

I cannot believe that you could be anymore hackish than you are now.

[go85bucks10]

I knew Bush would win, but didnt expect Gore to win the popular vote, especially by 600,000 votes.

[NDN]

I figured Bush would win.

[J. J.]

I expected a Bush win.

[bhouston79]

It was my Senior year of college, and although I hadn't followed the individual state polls very closely, I had followed the national numbers.  I knew that all of the polls showed that the race was virtually a dead heat, but I had no idea why.  After all, Bill Clinton had won the previous two elections in landslide fashion, and his approval rating was hovering around 60%.  I always believed that the polls were probably wrong, and that on election night Gore would win fairly easily.

On election night, I remember the commentators discussing the fact that in their estimation the three critical states to watch were Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida.  By about 9:00 p.m. all three of those states had been called for Gore, and I also remember seeing early returns from Tennessee showing Gore ahead (most likely these were returns from Middle and West Tennessee).  At this point in the night it seemed like my belief that Gore would wind up winning the election comfortably was proving to be accurate.  Then shortly thereafter, Tennessee was called for Bush; Florida was retracted for Gore; and West Virginia was called for Bush.  All three of these calls were extremely disturbing and made me start to worry.  After all, Tennessee was Gore's home state; Clinton had carried it twice and Gore had won elections as a Senator here rather easily.  The Florida retraction was very concerning for obvious reasons.  And the West Virginia call came as a total shock to me because I had believed that West Virginia was a democratic stronghold.  After all, it was one of only ten states that voted for Dukakis in 1988.  It was at this point that I realized that it was going to be an extremely long night.  And of course the rest is history.

[RosettaStoned]

Gore. I made my own little map a few days before the Election that was the same as the actual map, except it had Gore winning New Hampshire, Ohio and Florida.

[Person Man]

I expected a Bush win.

ehhh...pretty much. I just knew that people liked him because he was "such a nice guy". I was 15 at the time. So....

[pogo stick]

Nush. Thought FL was safe Gore though, I thought MN, WI, and OR and IA would've went Bush

[YRABNNRM]

Nush. Thought FL was safe Gore though, I thought MN, WI, and OR and IA would've went Bush

You must have been a very politically astute two year old.

[Mechaman]

Bush. He promised a tax cut (although taxes weren't that bad in 2000) and a humbler foreign policy compared to the "bomb here, bomb there" policy of Clinton. People usually like the guy who campaigns on a tax cut and peace. That isn't to say he follow thru on both though......

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Bush.

[pogo stick]

Bush. He promised a tax cut (although taxes weren't that bad in 2000) and a humbler foreign policy compared to the "bomb here, bomb there" policy of Clinton. People usually like the guy who campaigns on a tax cut and peace. That isn't to say he follow thru on both though......

Boohoo

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Had the election been held a week earlier, Bush would have won comfortably. That was probably the general consensus on the news a few days before the election which I would have seen and I didn't follow the events right before the election day so I didn't learn of the DUI flap untill years later. Also I was only 9 and I was upset that NY, where I was living at the Time, and PA where I moved from 2 years prior and would move back to one year later, had both gone to Gore. I didn't learn untill years later why that occured.

[ej2mm15]

Unfortunately I was 4 at the time

[rebeltarian]

I was not sure at all!  I was a Bush supporter because he ran on an old-school, conservative isolationist "humble foreign policy" (my, how the times have changed).  Gore's "no comment" on placing the military under UN control was the deal-breaker for me.  I thought Gore had it in the bag after he cruised through the northeast and CNN called Florida for him.  Then Bush grabbed Ohio and Tennessee and Florida got thrown back into the unknown.  I remember watching one southern state after another light up red and I knew Bush had a shot.  Haha, pity for Gore that he couldn't hold any of the Clinton border-states in the upper south; give him just one of them and he would have walked away regardless of the FL dispute.  Poor bastard should've kept his mouth shut about guns and those meat-eating, union douchebags in WV, KY and TN wouldn't have pulled the lever for Bush.