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I'm suggesting a third solution: Gore lost because more people agreed with George Bush on the major issues.

Well, in a state like FL -- where 500+ votes was the margin of win -- your suggestion, although it sounds good at first, suddenly sounds very weak, very quickly.

Also, I am not hung up on any "theft" of election concept -- but, you see, I am in FL, where that concept is one the Dem Party has certainly tried to sell here in this state, even quite recently, with Alec Baldwin coming to FL.

Finally, I am not willing to conclude by saying: 'I have to be right and you have to be wrong.' Not at all -- not when it comes to such a complex question as trying to determine the reason each and every voter voted the way he or she did.

In my all my posts here on this subject, I merely wanted to point out: there were local issues here in FL involving federal land, and such events were of great concern to many voters here. (Maybe not to you -- and, I can understand that too, as you're not here in FL.)

Finally, one thought to consider: In a close race, "more people" does not win a national election in this country. However, "more states" will win it.

Thank you for taking the time to politely respond. I truly enjoyed chatting with you, and hope something I posted somewhere made you chuckle. :)

AmishDude, Maybe what partly motivated this article was Gore's desire to come up with an excuse for his silence to FL voters in Election 2000 -- and see if that excuse sells.

It doesn't sell to me. Come November, when I vote, I will still remember it was NO THANKS to any Dem local, state or national leader that FL people won on an important environmental issue.

Instead, it was thanks to the GOP gov and his GOP brother. Yes, big surprise, but true. And, they got the deal done before the 20 months time it took Gore to figure out what excuses he would float to voters in this article.

IMO, that 1996-2001 report on the airport proposal from the Army was obviously delayed for years, for reasons Gore never intends to explain. But, thankfully, Gore lost in 2000. Otherwise we would have had a new commercial airport in the Everglades by now.