Bush V. Gore 2000

The US Presidential Election of 2000 featured George W. Bush and Al Gore. It will go down in history as one of the most closest elections¡¦ in US history. It also goes down as one of the most controversial. The final decision was based on just a few hundred votes in Florida. The controversy began when the media prematurely declared the winner twice based solely on exit polls. They finally conceded that the Florida count was just too close to predict. It would take a month before the election was ultimately certified after numerous court challenges and vote recounts. Republican candidate George W. Bush was declared the winner of the Florida¡¦s 25 electoral votes. This was a victory by a razor thin margin of popular

In the election of 2000, Candidate George W. Bush ran against Al Gore, it is argued that this particular election was dishonest. Several occurrences support the claim as to why this election was not legitimate. The most significant incident occurred in Palm Beach, Florida, where a significant amount of local senior citizens claimed that they had voted for the wrong candidate due to the butterfly ballot. Seeing that the butterfly ballot confused many senior residents, it cost Al Gore votes. Gore had 2,907,351 votes while Bush had 2,909,135 votes, which is why the senior residents’ claim called for a statewide recount for Florida. Although, 18 out of the 67 counties failed to recount the ballots, the recount still benefited Gore by now being

Have you ever waited to hear important news that could change not only you, but also the lives of others in an instant, but constant confusion left you anxious as the weeks went by? This happened in the 2000 presidential election between Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore. It was one of the closest presidential elections ever, but it also sparked controversy.

The 2012 presidential election was fundamentally different than the presidential election of 2004. In 2004 George W Bush defeated John Kerry with 62,028,719 votes, which was about 50.8 percent of the ballots cast. In 2004 the issue that was of most concern for Americans was terrorism. The attacks on September 11th 2001 under George Bush's first year in office, seemed to bring the country together in a way not seen since the second world war. The polling data shows that 52 percent of the people believed that Bush would do a better job dealing with terrorism and homeland security, versus 29 percent for Kerry. Voters seemed to prefer Bush on Iraq, 50 to 37; on moral values, by 47 to 29. Kerry led 48 to 32 on jobs and unemployment and by

Following the first Presidential Debate, Dan Balz and Terry M. Neal of The Washington Post reported the debate in an article on October 4, 2000. In a debate full of clashing, noticeable body language, and critique the morning headline read “Gore, Bush Clash Sharply On Issues in First Debate”. The article describes in detail the events of the debate, but also leaves you with a good mental image of each candidate. The two journalist give a good description of the emotional state of Bush and his campaign staff prior to the debate, where they portray him almost to be immature, and persistent

The implications of this case go beyond the typical rulings in Supreme Court Cases. The holding in Bush v. Gore had a significant impact because it named the President of the United States. It was by way of this ruling that the head of the executive branch was chosen. This ruling allowed for President Bush’s eight-year rule. Given the events that occurred during Bush’s presidency, The United States could have been run completely differently given the outcome of that election. A direct impact was that Bush appointed a more conservative bench to the Court.

Bush on December 13, 2000. Months after the United States Supreme Court delivered its ruling to stop the statewide hand recount in Florida, media and academic organizations conducted their own studies of the ballots in Florida. Some recent studies show Bush would have most likely won the Florida statewide recount of all under votes. The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes. However, his legal team never pursued this action. It is believed that more voters went to the polls in Florida on Election Day intending to vote for Gore than for Bush. Even 15 years after the election, partisans on each side make or pick various scenarios that would have favored their

Based on what the film lays out for me. I think Gore outright won the election, but got cheated out of the chance, as the film shows many problems within the voting system. For example, the ballots being too ambiguous for people to know who they’re voting for, and Bush’s voting party not analyzing all the rules, as they attempt to sue Gore’s voting party for calling forth a hand recount. During the Supreme Court arguments, Gore’s lawyer brought up the fact Governor G.W. Bush himself has passed a law in Texas, arguing in favor of hand recounts when a electoral count has been found to be mistabulated in such a way as to negatively affect the outcome, which this was considered when it was found to have cost Gore, roughly, 6,000 votes. Not to

The election of 2000 is a true story based on the presidential campaign between Governor Bush and vice-president Al Gore. This election was significant due to the controversy regarding Florida’s ballots and became the first election where the Supreme Court largely affected the outcome of the presidential election. With Bush leading the poll by 1,784 votes, this allowed Gore’s campaign to request a mandatory machine recount with a 0.3% difference in votes. However, many of Florida's counties refused to rerun the ballots in the machine. Instead, they would rerun the memory card. As a result, ballot chad's became the dilemma of the election and possibly change the entire outcome in presidential history. Under those circumstances, Gore’s campaigned

Candidate Gore had some difficulty issuing the order with a solid command presence. Even though SNC managed to hit all the paragraphs of OSMEAC, there were several long pauses while he gathered his thoughts during his brief, which displayed a lack of confidence in his abilities to lead. Initially, SNC had planned to use the stairs to throw the rope over the obstacle, which was an interesting way to approach the problem. Once SNC was told that was not an option, he was able to adapt to the situation and quickly formulate a secondary plan. This plan was to throw the rope over the tallest part of the obstacle, which was repeated throughout the remaining time with SNC assigning one fire team member at a time to attempt this goal without success.

The election of 2000 was the closest and most controversial election in all U.S. history. This event was the fierce competition full of irregularities and unfairness between George W. Bush and Al Gore to become the first president elected in the 21st century that turned into an intense political and legal battle to decide the presidency. It was such an interesting and unique election because unlike how elections are supposed to work, the election of 2000, for many unique reasons, did not end with a clear winner. This event was not only an election, but a test of american democracy that challenged many people’s trust in the american court system, and left millions of americans asking the question, who really won the election of

In 2000 one of the most infamous, nail biting, and tedious election took place. The race between Al Gore and George W. Bush for the presidency was significantly close that questions about the race being legitimate arose. In the movie “Recount” director Jay Roach depicts shocking events that occurred during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. For one thing, the presidential race all came down to the state of Florida when supposedly candidate George W. Bush won the electoral votes. However, this result all changed when Michael Whouley, one of the democrat’s political consultants noted that in reality, Bush only lead by 1,784 votes. With this in mind, Bush only got .03% of the votes so an automatic recount has to occur. In addition, it turns

The film Recount narrates the 2000 U.S. presidential election between Bush and Gore. The election between George W. Bush, the Governor of Texas, and U.S. Vice President Al Gore is one of the most controversial and headlining rulings of all time. The film begins with the November 7th election and ends with the ruling of the Supreme Court, which stopped the election recount in Florida on December 12th. Mixing fictional recreations and real news footage, the revealing documentary shows a behind the scenes look of the Florida recount and the drama surrounding the presidential election.

The movie Recount showed the hard fought battle to be the 43rd President of the United States between George W Bush and Al Gore. I believe that George W Bush won the presidency fair and square. The odds were against Al Gore, every poll had Bush winning Florida, whose governor happened to be George Bush’s brother. But he put up a very valiant fight as the movie stated he only lost by about 500 votes (1). Even though there was about 175,000 votes who didn’t have their votes counted (1), Bush was still predicted to win those counties. A recount was put in place and the first thing the Bush team did was try to stop it (1), they wanted to halt anything the Gore team had up their sleeve. Even with many “what ifs” I still believe that the 2000 election

During the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, to the public’s eye, the election was clear. Bush won; but behind the scenes, in the offices of the campaign committees, a whole different story was told. Recount presented the true corruption of politics during elections. It’s displayed that Mac Stipanovich, a Republican lobbyist, influenced Secretary of State Katherine Harris to favor more the republicans. While Caly Roberts, Director Division of Elections, remained neutral and unbiased. James Baker, chief of staff for Bush, and Ron Klain, chief of staff for Gore, put up a good fight. They fought until the decision evidently came down to Gore. Most viewers of the film or citizens who experienced the event, may say Bush’s campaign