yes in the 2000 presidential election.
California is almost always a "Blue" State, or Democratic. 1996: Clinton 2000: Gore 2004: Kerry
George Bush won the electoral vote with 271 to Al Gore's 266. Gore, however, won the popular vote with 50,999,897 votes while Bush only had 50,456,002.
Al Gore
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.
Al Gore
The popular vote was 48.4 percent for Al Gore and 47.9 percent for George W. Bush. The Electoral Vote was 271 for Bush and 266 for Gore with One vote in abstention.
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.
2000 (Al Gore)
Electoral vote! Evidently the popular vote doesn't count since Gore won the popular vote.
Al Gore won Oregon in 2000.
The US Supreme Court appointed Bush president following following election disputes in Florida. Popular vote does not affect the outcome of election. Although popular and electoral vote almost always reflect the same outcome, sometimes, 3 times in US history, they deviate. Bush did not win the popular vote, but due to the narrow victory in Florida decided by the Supreme Court, he still won the election. This is possible due to each state having different amounts of electoral votes. Say that Gore received all of the votes in California and Bush got none, compared to if Gore won by only one vote in California. Gore would still get all 55 electoral votes from California regardless of how close Bush was. In 2000 Gore won most of his states by large margins, and lost most states narrowly. Thus in the end he received more total votes, but Bush won since he still got all the electoral votes from the states he won.
George W. Bush vs Al Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote but did not win the election. the elections in 1824, 1876, 1888 also saw the loser in the popular vote win the electorial college vote and become President.