“He even came within a few hundred votes of being President.”
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Actually he WON the nationwide popular vote. Only the electoral college system and a tiny margin of a few hundred in Florida saved us from an Al Gore presidency. No matter what you may think of George W. Bush it is hard to imagine any way that Gore could have been anything other than far worse. Every time someone tells me that we should have a popular vote presidential election I cringe at the thought.
As bad as Bush was on some things, can you imaging 9/11 happening on Gore's watch?