Nor Kerry either. Both are more restrained than crazy Algore... and he almost won!
We won by The Electoral College and the SCOTUS.
The only reason we needed the Electoral College and SCOTUS is because of the intentional, perfectly-timed leak by the DNC about Bush's 500-year-old drunk driving arrest, combined with the networks calling Florida (and, by extention, the entire nation) for Gore an hour before the polls closed. Several studies have shown that cost Bush at least 1 to 2 MILLION votes across the West.