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He lost the electoral vote. He got more popular votes but those don't matter.
Had Al Gore won one more state (even a 3-electoral vote state like Wyoming) he would have been the president from 2001-2005. Also Joe Lieberman would have become the first Jewish vice president.
Because he did not win 270 electoral votes. Yes, he did win the popular vote, but he had won by more states in the states he won, and a closer margin in the states that he lost.
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∙ 11y agoHe lost the presidential election of 2000 because he did not have enough electoral votes to win the election.
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∙ 16y agoThousands of Black and Hispanic voters were disenfranchised in Florida. The Supreme Court halted the re-counting of the votes, and declared Bush the winner of the 2000 election.
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∙ 14y agoBecause more people voted for him on a percentage basis (of those that chose to vote).
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∙ 14y agoNo Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but lost the electoral vote.
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∙ 14y agohe lost in the number of electoral college votes.
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∙ 11y agoHe didn't win because 538 people did not vote for him.
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Was Al Gore the Republican presidential nominee in 2000?
No. Al Gore, who was the former Vice President under President Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, was the Democraticnominee for President.He lost to the Republican Presidential nominee, who was George W. Bush.
What vice presidents ran for president and were not elected?
Incumbent Vice Presidents who lost their presidential elections were...John C. Breckinridge (1860)Richard M. Nixon (1960)Hubert H. Humphrey (1968)Al Gore (2000)(Although Nixon lost the 1960 election, he ran again and won eight years later.... His opponent was the incumbent Vice President.)
In 2000 who lost the presidential election?
Al Gore, who was Bill Clinton's Vice-President, narrowly lost the electoral vote count, and thereby the election, to George W. Bush, governor of Texas and son of President George H. Bush.Suits challenging the outcome were controversially decided by the US Supreme Court, which ruled in Bush v. Gore that planned recounts in the state of Florida could not be conducted, due to the lack of statewide standards for such recounting.
In 2000s Presidential election what former Senator had a plurality of the popular vote but lost?
Al Gore
How was the 2000 US presidential election like the elections of 1876 and 1888?
George W. Bush won the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote. The elections of Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison displayed the same disparity.
George Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore in 2000?
True
Did Polk lose any presidential elections?
No, James K. Polk never lost a presidential election. One of his campaign promises was not to run for re-election.
Who are the five Vice Presidents that have tried and failed to win the presidency?
The vice presidents who were nominated by their parties and lost the election were Thomas Jefferson in 1996, Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Bob Dole in 1996 and Al Gore in 2000. Former Vice Presidents John Adams, Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush also lost presidential elections, but only after they were President.
When did George W. Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote?
George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 and Bush 50,456,062.
What individual won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote in the 2000 election?
Al Gore
How many times did Abraham Lincoln run for President and failed?
He lost 8 prior elections, before winning the Presidential election in 1860. He never lost any Presidential election, and he ran twice, and was elected twice, as President.
What was unusual about the 2000 presidential election?
Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote to George W. Bush. George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election defeating Albert Gore, Jr. In the 2000 presidential election George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Albert Gore, Jr. received 266 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Gore 50,996,582 and Bush 50,456,062.
