YEAH! I remember how everybody thought Bush was going to win easily in 2000 and that Florida would definitely go for Bush. I voted but I made up that 537 vote margin (after the usual Democrat vote stealing) that gave the presidency to Bush. So don't ANYBODY sit smugly at home on election day. VOTE. BTW, I often vote by absentee ballot but Broward County is so SCREWED UP that they have already lost lots of absentee votes this year so I am going to forgo the absentee vote next year.
Win easily? I don't remember anything like that (though I didn't discover FR until the recount fiasco started). In fact, the day before the election, the local morning radio drive-time show was about the fact the Bush was probably going to get a majority of the popular vote, but that Gore would take the electoral college.