You are probably right for the most part; but I was a Gore voter who switched sides. I can't be the only one who wised up after our country was attacked on 9/11.
The term "Sept. 12 Republican" is sometimes used for this change; Dennis Miller and moviemaker David Zucker describe themselves this way. Numerous traditionally Democratic voters decided that Kerry and the DNC simply are not deep-down committed to ensuring that the US deals seriously with the terrorist threat. The fact that Howard Dean is now being seriously considered for DNC leadership simply reinforces this pacifist/isolationist image for the party.
Indeed not. But keep this mind. Despite his faults, Al Gore had a strong record to run on. John Kerry was an absolute joke. "Ignore my almost twenty years in the Senate, because I was in Vietnam! Forget that I sold out my colleagues - especially the POWs - because I was in Vietnam! And don't you dare question my patriotism, because I was in Vietnam!"
Yet this sleazeball got the second largest amount of votes for President ever. Unbelievable.
In short, you were outnumbered. But welcome to the light. :-)