>>508105122Jeb! and Clarence Thomas handed W the 2000 election. Gore should have kept fighting, but at the time a candidate refusing to concede was considered a selfish attack on the peaceful transfer of power that only someone who truly did not care about America would even consider. How things have changed.
Bush was still riding high from his post 9/11 approval bump, so Kerry was a throw away candidate the Dems ran to avoid wasting a real candidate.