Word: gore
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...actually thought we might get McCain and Bill Bradley, but we wound up with the two guys we knew we'd get, deep down. And what did they do? First George W. Bush did the unexpected: he didn't make a fool of himself during the debates. Then Al Gore couldn't decide whether he was Attack Dog Al or Nice Guy Al. And finally, Dubya and Al tied. In a year when things didn't happen, one after another, we got a non-happening, unpresidential election. Perfect...
...Vice President Al Gore...
...rest of the year, the public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting a World Bank conference in Washington; Ford and Firestone executives blaming one another for a string of auto fatalities; Bill Clinton taking a last, slow lap around the presidential track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought...
George W. Bush had been no more nor less ignored than Al Gore throughout a long campaign that never really engaged the public. Surviving the debates, he led in the polls for 20 of the last 26 weeks leading to Election Day, then headed back to Texas to hunker down and, surrounded by his famous family, watch the returns. Now, finally, attention would be paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida...
...think our guys tried every trick in the book to win the presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic...