How was 2000 scored? If you look at every election since 1984 only one, 2000, was ever in any doubt.
‘92 looked like a Bush win this far out, he was still riding high from Desert Storm.
‘92 was George H’s to lose and, boy, did he ever!
“Saved” the country by reneging on a huge no-new-taxes pledge and lost the election as the result. He set the precedent that _even_ Republicans will simply raise taxes to solve fiscal problems. That may be true of the Republican _party._ But certainly not true of the party _base_ that’s on the hook for paying for DC’s boondoggles.