[MozarkDawg]

“Under the current system, running for president means just one thing: focus on the so-called swing states,” he wrote. “I did it. Al Gore did it. John Kerry did it, and our Republican opponents did it, too.”

Well that was Gore's problem right there, he ought to have spent some time focusing on HIS OWN HOME STATE, winning Tennessee would have made that whole Florida fiasco non-existent:

Electoral votes needed to win: 270

Bush votes: 271 - 11 = 260
Gore votes: 267 + 11 = 278

[MrB]

He DID win his “home state” - Washington DC.