Enough nonsense about Gore's campaign, especially from Matthews

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In light of all the historical revisionism about 2000 I think it is time again to put Gore's run in perspective. Gore, had he had his win ratified, would have pulled of a miracle of epic purportions.

First in comparison to the runs since 1948. Democrats have won 1948, 1960, 1964, 1976, 1992, 1996, and 2000. We lost 1952, 1956, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988. That is a 7 and 7 record. Yet, lets take a closer look. The seven Republican wins, except 1968 were all either solid (80, 88) or blowouts. The 7 Democratic wins were one blow out (64), two solid wins (92, 96) and 4 close wins (48, 60, 76, 00). Only two of our wins were over 50% (64, 76). Gore's percentage beat Truman, Kennedy, and Clinton. That makes his run third. Only beaten by LBJ who ran as heir to a martyr and Carter who ran against the man who pardoned Nixon.

Second compare to other who ran for an open seat Presidency. We are 2 and 6 on those. We lost 1908, 1920, 1928, 1952, 1968, 1988. We won 1960, and 2000. Republicans won one close race, one solid win, and 4 blowouts. We had two close wins. Gore did better than Kennedy did in terms of margin and percent of vote.

Third. Gore came back for the third largest deficit since 1948. Truman's famous comeback, Ford's near comeback and Bush's big comeback are all a little better but that is it. Gore and Ford were about tied on this score. He did this with a hostile media, being hugely outspent, and a third party on his left. He won back 15 points in a year and a half.

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Gore ran a great campaign and if he had won, instead of having Florida stolen, he and his campaign team would be recognized as the political geniuses they were. Matthews was in the tank for Bush and desperately wants to blame everyone but himself for the disaster he helped bring about. Don't let him get away with it.

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1. Gore's campaign was 11 years ago.

Tweety still thinks it's the Bill Clinton era.

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2. Tweety is a sexist pig who is obsessed with the Clenus

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3. I'll never forget how horrible Tweety and all of the villagers were to Gore during 2000.

Gawd, they were so hateful, snarky and condescending toward him the entire campaign.

Bastards.

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4. As much as I think Nadar has a special place in hell for him over this

I am certain that those God awful press people have their own place.