[KJacob]

Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) would win with 54.5 percent of the vote. In fact, he took 50.5 percent

Is this true? Gore got over 50% in a three person race and lost?! I thought both Gore and Bush were around 48%.

[HamiltonJay]

Facts are wrong, Gore got in the 48ish range.. he did not cross the 50% range in 2000... more media propoganda. There has not been a president to truly win the Majority of the electorate since 1988 when Bush Sr. won the white house.

[finnman69]

http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/

Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote

George W. Bush Richard Cheney Republican 50,460,110 47.87% 271 50.37%

Albert Gore Jr. Joseph Lieberman Democratic 51,003,926 48.38% 266 49.44%

Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke Green 2,883,105 2.73% 0 0.00%

Patrick Buchanan Ezola Foster Reform 449,225 0.43% 0 0.00%

Harry Browne Art Olivier Libertarian 384,516 0.36% 0 0.00%

Other (+) - - 236,376 0.22% 1 0.19%