The election of 2000 By Brooke Russell

Thesis Lead in: Time periods before the 2000 election have occurred to where the popular voted candidate has not won the electoral vote. Within the election of Hayes against Tilden, both parties had thought the Democrats had won, yet that was not the case. Both times the other party had won by not gaining more popular votes, but more electoral votes. During the election Florida was also a helping decide the result of the election, which would determine who actually won. Just recently as well during the 2016 election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had encountered a similar occurrence of Clinton winning the popular vote and Trump winning the electoral vote. HTS: Periodization Thesis: Future candidates running for president could run into problems with the ballot counting such as what happened in Florida not only once but twice, the parties thinking one party won yet learning they were wrong, and the popular vote does not always determine who could win the election right away.

Which candidates ran for office Republican George W. Bush At the time he was the governor of Texas He was the son of George H. W. Bush Democrat Al Gore Bill Clinton’s vice president of two terms Was the primary candidate for the Democrats Ralph Nader He was a part of the Green Party He was not a main candidate in the election

Who won the election In 2000, George W. Bush won the election. Bush had 271 electoral votes and Gore had 266 Bush had received less popular votes throughout the country than Gore did This was an unusual event of the winning candidate. This also occurred within the 2016 election of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton This was the closest election since 1876 with Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden On the actual election night there was no clear winner Even though Gore had thought Bush won the election The election was based around the state of Florida.

Florida recount/Why bush won Florida had only 25 electoral votes Gore was originally elected the winner of Florida Within the next day, Bush had a larger lead The race in Florida was closer than Gore though Less than 600 votes separated the candidates Bush had 537 vote margin and Gore had 393 vote margin 60,000 “undervotes” did not register within the state of Florida The Florida Supreme Court did not allow the recount to continue If there was an actual recount, Gore would have won Since there was no recount, Bush won The recount lasted 36 days until Gore conceded the presidency to Bush Studies show that Bush would’ve won Florida if all the undervotes counted, this would have prevented the Florida recount

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Review questions What happened with the Florida recount? The Florida Supreme Court stopped the recount after deciding the recount would not meet the deadline provided by the court, and Bush was granted the presidency. What were the two other occurrences within United States presidential elections that the loosing candidate gained more popular votes than the winner? 1876 with Hayes and Tilden, 2016 with Trump and Clinton. Who was originally elected the winner of Florida during the election until the Florida recount? Florida had voted democrat meaning Gore won.

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