At the risk of dragging this out (like that ever stopped me before!):

According to CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/index.president.html

the popular vote totals are:

Gore:  50,158,094
Bush:  49,820,518
Other:  3,835,594

for a difference of 337,576 (between Gore and Bush) which is .3251% (that's
point three two five one) of the total vote.  In other words, Gore received
48.32% of the total vote, Bush 47.99%, and other 3.69%.  When dealing with a
total number of votes this large (103,814,206), I think the difference is
insignificant.

Another way of looking at it is the way one TV pundit put it:  It wasn't
that it was a close vote, we had two landslides.  Gore won in the
traditional Democratic states along both coasts (the states which generally
have a more liberal leaning) and Bush won in the south and midwest states
(traditionally Republican and of a more conservative leaning).  It is this
polarization of the vote that requires the winner (now Bush, at least until
the Electoral College votes) to be a uniting force and not a dividing one.
Bush has already started saying the right things in his speech the other
night (and having a Democrat introduce him was a nice touch).



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