In 2000, Al Gore was NOT elected President because of Tennessee, his home state voting against him.
In 2006, bucking an anti-Republican tide in the election, Tennessee elects a Republican over Harold Ford, Jr despite massive MSM support.
Tennessee can stand proud.
Lets be honest...Harold Ford was a loser to start with...so it wasn't that big of a race.
As for the Gore election results...he did lose...but its a 4 percent margin, which isn't alot. Had Gore picked a more identifiable VP...he might have made up some points...who knows. But then...aren't we lucky that we stuck to the electoral college? A single-person vote election...would have brought totally different results (half-million more voters nationally for Gore than GW).
When its all said and done...the 2000 race was the luckiest Republican moment in 100 years...no one can deny that part.