Does Al Gore realize that if the electoral college wasn’t in effect in 2000, he might have lost anyway? Bush would have devoted a lot of resources toward getting every last voter out in Texas and other states that he had in the bag.
It’s possible Obama might lose the popular vote and win the electoral college this year. Some polls are suggesting that’s the case. If that does happen, Obama would have won fair and square.
Given the amount of fraud in places like Philly and Chicago, and the fact that absentee ballots were never counted in the deep blue states, Gore may very well *have* gotten fewer legitimate popular votes than GWB.
There were lots of absentee ballots that went uncounted in 2000. Clinton ordered ships to deepsix mailbags full of absentee ballots from overseas military people, and I read a few days after the election that California state officials were sitting on a vast trove of absentee ballots, which they refused to open or count, lest they falsify Gore's claim to have won the popular vote.