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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States presidential election, 2000 United States presidential election, 2000 ‹ 1996 2004 › Incumbent President Bill Clinton Democratic President-elect George W. Bush Republican United States presidential election, 2000 November 7, 2000 Nominee Party Home state Running mate Electoral vote States carried Popular vote Percentage George W. Bush Republican Texas Dick Cheney 271 30 50,460,110 47.9% Al Gore Democratic Tennessee Joe Lieberman 266 20 + DC 51,003,926 48.4% The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989-1993), and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Bush narrowly won the November 7 election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266 (with one elector abstaining in the official tally). The election was noteworthy for a controversy over the awarding of Florida’s 25 electoral votes, the subsequent recount process in that state, and the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes than the runner-up.[1] It was the closest election since 1876. Attorney and political activist Ralph Nader ran on the Green Party ticket and his running mate was Native American activist Winona LaDuke of Minnesota. Nominations Democratic Party nomination Democratic candidates • Al Gore, Vice President of the United States from Tennessee • Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator from New Jersey Candidates gallery Vice President Al Former Senator Bill Gore of Tennessee Bradley of New Jersey Many candidates for the Democratic nominaPresidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney, tion tested the waters, but only two serious Blue denotes those won by Gore/Lieberman. candidates entered the contest: Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and former Senator 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States presidential election, 2000 star Michael Jordan campaigned for him in the early primary states, Bradley announced his intention to campaign "in a different way" by conducting a positive campaign of "big ideas." He made the spending of the recordbreaking budget surplus on a variety of social welfare programs to help the poor and the middle-class one of his central issues, along with campaign finance reform and gun control. Gore easily defeated Bradley in the primaries, largely because of the support given to Gore by the Democratic Party establishment and Bradley’s poor showing in the Iowa caucus, where Gore successfully painted Bradley as aloof and indifferent to the plight of farmers in rural America. The closest Bradley came to a victory was his 50–46 loss to Gore in the New Hampshire primary. On March 14 Al Gore won the Democratic nomination. Gore, as incumbent V.P., was supported by Bill Clinton and despite Bradley’s challenge was a safe front-runner. But some other prominent Democrats were mentioned as possible contenders, such as Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey,[3] Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, and famous actor and director Warren Beatty,[4] who declined to run. None of Bradley’s delegates were allowed to vote for him, so Gore won the nomination unanimously at the Democratic National Convention. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was nominated for Vice President by voice vote. Lieberman became the first Jewish American ever to be chosen for this position by a major party. Lieberman was chosen by Gore over five other finalists on his shortlist.[5] Delegate Totals Democratic National Convention Tally • Vice President Albert Gore Jr. 4328 • Abstentions 9 Bill Bradley of New Jersey. Only Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone formed an exploratory committee.[2] Gore had a strong base as the incumbent Vice President; Bradley received some endorsements but was not the candidate of a major faction or coalition of blocs. Running an insurgency campaign, Bradley positioned himself as the alternative to Gore, who was a founding member of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. While former basketball Republican Party nomination Candidates gallery Governor George Former U.S. 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States presidential election, 2000 dropped out to run for the Reform Party nomination. That left Bush, John McCain, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, and Orrin Hatch as the only candidates still in the race. On January 24, Bush won the Iowa caucus with 41% of the vote. Forbes came in second with 30% of the vote. Keyes received 14%, Bauer 9%, McCain 5%, and Hatch 1%. Hatch dropped out. Bush, the governor of Texas, a son of a former president, and the favored candidate of the Christian right, was portrayed in the media as the establishment candidate. McCain, with the support of many moderate Republicans and Independents, portrayed himself as a crusading insurgent who focused on campaign reform. On February 1, McCain won a 49%–30% victory over Bush in the New Hampshire primary. Gary Bauer dropped out. After coming in third in Delaware Forbes dropped out, leaving three candidates. In the South Carolina primary, Bush soundly defeated McCain. Some credit Bush’s ECOSOC Businessman Former Under- win to the fact that it was W. Bush Senator the secretary ofclosed primary in 2000, which first major Ambassador Steve of Texas John negated McCain’s strong advantage among Education McCain of Alan Keyes Forbes of independents. of of Maryland New York Gary Bauer Some McCain supporters Arizona blamed it on the Bush campaign, accusing Kentucky them of mudslinging and dirty tricks, such as push polling that implied that McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi-born daughter was an African-American child he fathered out of wedlock.[6] McCain’s loss in South Carolina damaged his campaign. After the South Carolina primary, McCain won both Michigan and Former Former his Secretary Publisher Vice Presid- Former Sec- home state of Arizona on February 22. On February 24, John McCain criticized of Labor and author ent Dan Representative retary of Senator George W. Bush forJohn denouncing the Bob not Kasich Elizabeth Pat Quayle of Education Robert C. Jones University policy banning inter-racial Dole of Buchanan Indiana of Ohio Lamar AlSmith February 28 John McCain also redating. Onof New North of Virginia exander of Hampshire ferred to Rev. Jerry Falwell and televangelist Carolina Tennessee Pat Robertson as agents of intolerance. John Several Republican candidates appeared on McCain lost the state of Virginia to George the national scene to challenge the nominee W. Bush on February 29. On Super Tuesday, of the incumbent party, Al Gore. March 7, Bush won New York, Ohio, Georgia, George W. Bush became the early fronMissouri, California, Maryland, and Maine. trunner, acquiring unprecedented funding McCain won Rhode Island, Vermont, Conand a broad base of leadership support based necticut, and Massachusetts, but dropped out on his governorship of Texas and the name of the race. On March 10, Alan Keyes got recognition and connections of the Bush fam21% of the vote in Utah. Bush took the majorily. Several aspirants withdrew before the ity of the remaining contests and won the ReIowa Caucus because they were unable to sepublican nomination on March 14, winning cure funding and endorsements sufficient to his home state of Texas and his brother Jeb’s remain competitive with Bush. These inhome state of Florida and other states. At the cluded Elizabeth Dole, Dan Quayle, Lamar AlRepublican National Convention in exander, and Robert C. Smith. Pat Buchanan 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philadelphia George W. Bush accepted the Nomination of the Republican party. Delegate Totals • Governor George W. Bush 1526 • Senator John McCain 275 • Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes 23 • Businessman Steve Forbes 10 • Gary Bauer 2 • None of the Names Shown 2 • Uncommitted 1 • Senator Orrin Hatch 0 Governor Bush told former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney to head up a commission to help select a running mate for him, but ultimately, Bush decided that Cheney should be the Vice Presidential nominee. While the U.S. Constitution does not specifically disallow a president and a vice-president from the same state, it does prohibit each elector from casting both of his or her votes for persons from his or her own state. Accordingly, Cheney—who had been a resident of Texas for nearly 10 years—changed his voting registration back to Wyoming. Had Cheney not done this, either he or Governor Bush would have forfeited their electoral votes from the Texas electors, a situation which—given the eventual razor-thin margin of victory for the Republicans that year—would have almost certainly resulted in the Vice-Presidential election going to the Republican Senate. Other mentioned candidates:[7] • Former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri • Former cabinet veteran Elizabeth Dole • Gov. John Engler of Michigan • Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma • Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania • Former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee • Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee • Gen. Colin Powell of New York • Sen. John McCain of Arizona • Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska United States presidential election, 2000 • Former Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu of New Hampshire[10] • Governor Jane Dee Hull of Arizona[11][12] • Governor John Engler of Michigan • Senator John Warner of Virginia[13] • Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia[13] • Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri[14] • Governor Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts[15] • Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin[16] • Representative Tom Davis of Virginia • Representative John Thune of South Dakota[17] • Ross Perot of Texas. John McCain • Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona[12] • Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee[18] • Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio[19] • Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska[20] • Representative Lindsey Graham of South Carolina[21] • Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina[21] • Representative Peter T. King of New York[22] • Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari[23] Steve Forbes • Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland[24] • Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell[25] Alan Keyes • Representative Tom Coburn of Oklahoma[26] Orrin Hatch • Senator Robert Foster Bennett of Utah[27] Lamar Alexander • Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas[27] • Former Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa[27] Dan Quayle • Former Governor Carroll A. Campbell of South Carolina[27] John Kasich • Mike DeWine (initially)[27] • Senator George Voinovich of Ohio[27] • Representative John Boehner of Ohio[27] Notable endorsements Note: Some of the endorsers switched positions. George W. Bush • Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi[8] • Former HUD Secretary and 1996 V.P. nominee Jack Kemp of New York[9] • Senator Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire[10] Reform Party nomination • Reform Party candidates • John B. Anderson of Florida, former U.S. Representative for the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia former Independent Presidential candidate • David L. Boren of Oklahoma, former U.S. Senator • Pat Buchanan of Virginia, former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to President Richard Nixon • Charles E. Collins of Georgia, former school board chairman from a rural Florida county • John Hagelin of Iowa, Ph.D., past and then-current Natural Law Party candidate • Ross Perot of Texas, 1996 presidential nominee • Donald Trump of New York, billionaire real estate developer The nomination went to Pat Buchanan[28] and running mate Ezola Foster of California, over the objections of party founder Ross Perot and despite a rump convention nomination of John Hagelin by the Perot faction (see Other nominations below). In the end, the Federal Election Commission sided with Buchanan, and that ticket appeared on 49 of 51 possible ballots. United States presidential election, 2000 Party appeared on 44 of 50 state ballots as well as the ballot in DC. Libertarian Party nomination • Libertarian Party candidates [2] • Harry Browne • Don Gorman • Jacob Hornberger • Barry Hess • David Hollist The Libertarian Party’s National Nominating Convention nominated Harry Browne of Tennessee and Art Olivier of California for Vice President. Browne was nominated on the first ballot and Olivier received the Vice Presidential nomination on the second ballot.[30] The Libertarian Party appeared on 50 of 51 ballots. Constitution Party nomination • Constitution Party candidates • Howard Phillips • Herb Titus • Mathew Zupan The nomination went to Howard Phillips of Virginia and Curtis Frazier of Missouri. The Constitution Party was on the ballot in 41 states. Association of State Green Parties nomination Natural Law Party nomination • John Hagelin of Iowa and Nat Goldhaber of California The Natural Law Party was on 38 ballots. The general election campaign Although the campaign was focused mainly on domestic issues, such as the projected budget surplus, proposed reforms of Social Security and Medicare, health care, and competing plans for tax relief, foreign policy was often an issue. Bush criticized Clinton administration policies in Somalia, where 18 Americans died in 1993 trying to sort out warring factions, and in the Balkans, where United States peacekeeping troops perform a variety of functions. "I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building," Bush said in the second presidential debate.[31] Bush also pledged to bridge partisan gaps in the nation’s capital, claiming the atmosphere in Washington stood in the way of progress on necessary reforms.[32] Gore, Ralph Nader in 2000 • Green Party candidates [1] • Ralph Nader • Jello Biafra • Stephen Gaskin • Joel Kovel The nomination went to Ralph Nader of Connecticut and Winona LaDuke of Minnesota, at the Green Party’s National Nominating Convention in Denver, Colorado.[29] The Green 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia meanwhile, questioned Bush’s fitness for the job, pointing to gaffes made by Bush in interviews and speeches and suggesting the Texas governor lacked the necessary experience to be president. Bill Clinton’s impeachment and the sex scandal that led up to it cast a shadow on the campaign, particularly on his vice president’s run to replace him. Republicans, who typically have an advantage with voters on moral issues, strongly denounced the Clinton scandals, particularly Bush, who made his repeated promise to restore "honor and dignity" to the White House (a none-too-subtle jab at Clinton) a centerpiece of his campaign. Gore studiously avoided the Clinton scandals, as did Lieberman, even though Lieberman had been the first Democratic senator to denounce Clinton’s misbehavior. In fact, some media observers theorized that Gore actually chose Lieberman in an attempt to separate himself from Clinton’s past misdeeds, and help blunt the GOP’s attempts to link him to his boss.[33] Others pointed to the passionate kiss Gore gave his wife during the Democratic Convention, as a signal that despite the allegations against Clinton, Gore himself was a faithful husband.[34] Gore avoided appearing with Clinton, who was shunted to low visibility appearances in areas where he was popular; experts have argued that this action, on Gore’s part, cost him votes from some of Clinton’s core supporters.[35][36][37] Ralph Nader was the most successful of third-party candidates, drawing 2.74% of the popular vote. His campaign was marked by a traveling tour of "super-rallies"; large rallies held in sports arenas like Madison Square Garden, with retired talk show host Phil Donahue as master of ceremonies. After initially ignoring Nader, the Gore campaign made a big publicity pitch to (potential) Nader supporters in the final weeks of the campaign, downplaying Gore’s differences with Nader on the issues and claiming that Gore’s ideas were more similar to Nader’s than Bush’s were, noting that Gore had a better chance of winning than Nader. On the other side, the Republican Leadership Council ran proNader ads in a few states in an effort to split the "liberal" vote.[38] In the aftermath of the campaign, many Gore supporters claimed that many of Nader’s voters would have supported Gore, thus siphoning off enough would-be Gore votes to throw the election to Bush. Nader dismissed such concerns, United States presidential election, 2000 claiming his objective in the campaign was to pass the 5% threshold so his party would be eligible for matching funds in future races. Both vice presidential candidates Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman campaigned aggressively in the 2000 presidential election. Both camps made numerous campaign stops nationwide, often just missing each other such as when Cheney, Hadassah Lieberman, and Tipper Gore attended Chicago’s Taste of Polonia over Labor Day Weekend[39] The Election Results Palm Beach County recount With the exception of Florida, Bush carried the Southern states by comfortable margins and also secured wins in Ohio, Indiana, most of the rural Midwestern farming states, most of the Rocky Mountain states, and Alaska. Gore balanced Bush by sweeping the Northeastern United States (with the sole exception of New Hampshire, which Bush won narrowly), most of the Upper Midwest, and all of the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California, and carried Hawaii, as well. As the night wore on, the returns in a handful of small-to-medium sized states, including Wisconsin and Iowa, were extremely close; however it was the state of Florida that would decide the winner of the election. As the final national results were tallied the following morning, Bush had clearly won a total of 246 electoral votes, while Gore had won 255 votes. 270 votes were needed to win. Two smaller states - New Mexico (5 electoral votes) and Oregon (7 electoral votes) - were still too close to call. It was Florida (25 electoral votes), however, that the news media focused their attention on. Mathematically, Florida’s 25 electoral votes became the key 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to an election win for either candidate. Although both New Mexico and Oregon were declared in favor of Gore over the next few days, Florida’s statewide vote took center stage because that state’s winner would ultimately win the election. The outcome of the election was not known for more than a month after the balloting ended because of the extended process of counting and then recounting Florida’s presidential ballots. United States presidential election, 2000 than 100,000 votes, the networks, starting with Fox News, declared that Bush had carried Florida and therefore had been elected President. However, most of the remaining votes to be counted in Florida were located in three heavily Democratic counties - Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach - and as their votes were reported Gore began to gain on Bush. By 4:30 a.m., after all votes were counted, Gore had narrowed Bush’s margin to just over 2,000 votes, and the networks retracted their predictions that Bush had won Florida and the presidency. Gore, who had privately conceded the election to Bush, withdrew his concession. The final result in Florida was slim enough to require a mandatory recount (by machine) under state law; Bush’s lead had dwindled to about 300 votes by the time it was completed later that week. A count of overseas military ballots later boosted his margin to about 900 votes. Most of the post-electoral controversy revolved around Gore’s request for hand recounts in four counties (Broward, Miami Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia), as provided under Florida state law. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would reject any revised totals from those counties if they were not turned in by November 14, the statutory deadline for amended returns. The Florida Supreme Court extended the deadline to November 26, a decision later vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. MiamiDade eventually halted its recount and resubmitted its original total to the state canvassing board, while Palm Beach County failed to meet the extended deadline. On November 26, the state canvassing board certified Bush the victor of Florida’s electors by 537 votes. Gore formally contested the certified results, but a state court decision overruling Gore was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered a recount of over 70,000 ballots previously rejected by machine counters. The U.S. Supreme Court quickly halted the order. On December 12, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5–4 vote that the Florida recounts could not be completed before a December 12 "safe harbor" deadline, and should therefore cease and the previously certified total should hold. The court also ruled 7–2 that the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling requiring a statewide recount of ballots was unconstitutional. Florida Recount 2000 Palm Beach County voting stand and ballot box At approximately 7:50 p.m. EST on election day, 10 minutes before the polls closed in the largely Republican Florida panhandle, which is in the Central time zone, some television news networks declared that Gore had carried Florida’s 25 electoral votes. They based this prediction substantially on exit polls. However, in the actual vote tally Bush began to take a wide lead early in Florida, and by 10 p.m. EST those networks had retracted that prediction and placed Florida back into the "undecided" column. At approximately 2:30 a.m., with some 85% of the votes counted in Florida and Bush leading Gore by more 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Presidential candidate Party Home state United States presidential election, 2000 Popular vote Count Pct Electoral Running mate Running vote mate’s home state Dick Cheney Wyoming George W. Bush Al Gore Ralph Nader Republican Texas 50,456,002 50,999,897 — 47.87% 271 48.38% 266 — 2.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 538 270 Democratic Tennessee — Green Joe Lieberman Connecticut (abstention)(a) — Winona LaDuke Ezola B. Foster Art Olivier Minnesota California California (abstention)(a) — Connecticut 2,882,955 Virginia 448,895 384,431 98,020 83,714 51,186 Pat Buchanan Reform Harry Browne Libertarian Tennessee Howard Phillips John Hagelin Other(b) Total Needed to win Constitution Virginia Natural Iowa Law/Reform Curtis Frazier Missouri Nat Goldhaber California Other(b) 105,405,100 100% National results Election results by county. Al Gore George W. Bush This file is a candidate for speedy deletion. It may be deleted after seven days from the date of nomination. Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more individual votes than Bush. Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate. Gore was the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Incidentally, Bush lost in Connecticut, the state in which he was born. Bush is also the first Republican in American history to win the presidency without winning Vermont or Illinois and the second Republican to win the presidency without winning California. (James A. Garfield in 1880 was the first.) Source (Electoral and Popular Vote): Federal Elections Commission Electoral and Popular Vote Summary (a) One faithless elector from the District of Columbia, Barbara Lett-Simmons, abstained from voting in protest of the District’s lack of voting representation in the United States Congress. (D.C. has a non-voting delegate to Congress.) She had been expected to vote for Gore/Lieberman. (b) Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote. Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, they have held a straw poll for their presidential preferences since 1980. In 2000, the results were Bush 18,075 (51.6%), Gore 16,549 (47.2%), and Browne 420 (1.2%).[40] State Results See also: United States presidential election, 2000 (detail) States where the margin of victory was less than 5% (139 electoral votes): 1. Florida, 0.0092% 2. New Mexico, 0.06% 8 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Wisconsin, 0.22% Iowa, 0.31% Oregon, 0.44% New Hampshire, 1.27% Minnesota, 2.40% Missouri, 3.34% Ohio, 3.51% Nevada, 3.55% Tennessee, 3.86% Pennsylvania, 4.17% United States presidential election, 2000 The first independent recount was conducted by The Miami Herald and USA Today. The Commission found that under most recount scenarios, Bush would have won the election, but Gore would have won using the most generous standards.[45] Voting machines Since the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the United States government and state governments pushed for election reform to be prepared by the 2004 United States Presidential Election. Many of Florida’s year 2000 election night problems stemmed from usability and ballot design factors with voting systems, including the potentially confusing "butterfly ballot." Many voters had difficulties with the paper based punch card voting machines and were either unable to understand the required process for voting or unable to perform the process. This resulted in an unusual amount of overvote (voting for more candidates than is allowed) and undervotes (voting for fewer than the minimum candidates, including none at all). Many undervotes were potentially caused by either voter error or errors with the punch card paper ballots resulting in hanging, dimpled, or pregnant chad. A proposed solution to these problems was the installation of modern electronic voting machines. The United States Presidential Election of 2000 spurred the debate about election and voting reform, but it did not end it. Aftermath Post recount After Florida was decided and Gore conceded, Texas Governor George W. Bush became the President-elect and began forming his transition committee.[41] In a speech on December 13, in the Texas House of Representatives chamber,[42] Bush stated he was reaching across party lines to bridge a divided America, saying, "the President of the United States is the President of every single American, of every race, and every background."[43] On January 6, 2001, a joint session of Congress met to certify the electoral vote. Twenty members of the House of Representatives, most of them Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus, rose one-byone to file objections to the electoral votes of Florida. However, according to an 1877 law, any such objection had to be sponsored by both a representative and a senator. No senator would co-sponsor these objections, deferring to the Supreme Court’s ruling. Therefore, Gore, who was presiding in his capacity as President of the Senate, ruled each of these objections out of order. Subsequently, the joint session of Congress certified the electoral votes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001. Ultimately, the Media Consortium hired the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago[44] to examine 175,010 ballots that were discounted; these ballots contained under-votes (votes with no choice made for president) and over-votes (votes made with more than one choice marked). Their goal was not to deduce who actually won the election but to determine the reliability and accuracy of the systems used for the voting process. Exit polling and declaration of vote winners The Voter News Service’s reputation was damaged by its treatment of Florida’s presidential vote in 2000. Breaking its own guidelines, VNS called the state as a win for Gore 12 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Although most of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone, counties in the Florida panhandle, located in the Central Time Zone, had not yet closed its polls. More seriously, inconsistent polling results caused the VNS to change its call twice, first from Gore to Bush, and then to "too close to call". Also, charges of media bias were levied against the networks by Republicans. They claimed that the networks called states more quickly for Al Gore than for George W. Bush. Congress held hearings on this matter and 9 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the networks claimed to have no intentional bias in their election night reporting. However, a study of the calls made on election night 2000 indicated that states carried by Gore were called more quickly than states won by Bush; however, notable Bush states, like New Hampshire and Florida, were very close, and close Gore states like New Mexico were called late too.[46] United States presidential election, 2000 held an official position in the organization since 1980 and does not serve on the board. Public Citizen—and the other groups that Mr. Nader founded—act independently.’"[49] Ironically, this is precisely opposite of the view held by one member of the Democratic Leadership Council senior staff. In the January 24, 2001 issue of the DLC’s Blueprint magazine, Democratic party strategist and DLC chair Al From wrote, "I think they’re wrong on all counts. The assertion that Nader’s marginal vote hurt Gore is not borne out by polling data. When exit pollers asked voters how they would have voted in a two-way race, Bush actually won by a point. That was better than he did with Nader in the race." More consequences In the aftermath of the election, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was passed to help states upgrade their election technology in the hopes of preventing similar problems in future elections. Unfortunately, the electronic voting systems which many states purchased in order to comply with HAVA actually caused problems in the following presidential election of 2004. Some Democrats blame third party candidate Ralph Nader for taking the election away from Gore. Nader received some 97,000 votes in Florida. According to the Washington Post, national exit polls showed that "47% of Nader voters would have gone for Gore if it had been a two-man race, and only 21% for Bush."[47] If the national numbers can be applied to Florida, Gore would have had a margin of some 24,000 votes over Bush. Many commentators believe that if Nader had not run, Gore would have won both New Hampshire and Florida, winning the election with 296 electoral votes. (Gore only needed one of the two to win.) Defenders of Nader, including Dan Perkins, argued that the margin in Florida was small enough that Democrats could blame any number of third-party candidates for the defeat, including Workers World Party candidate Monica Moorehead, who received 1,500 votes.[48] Nader’s reputation was still hurt by this perception, and may have hindered his future goals as an activist. For example, Mother Jones wrote, "For evidence of how rank-andfile liberals have turned against Nader, one need look no further than the empire he created. Public Citizen, the organization (Nader) founded in 1971, has a new fundraising problem—its founder. After the election, contributions dropped... 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