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A Cracker In The Coalition

By Kleinheider Posted on May 16, 2008 at 6:18 pm

The Wall Street Journal asserts that it was West Virginia as much as Florida or Tennessee that was the state Al Gore should have won but didn’t it 2000:

West Virginia remains strongly Democratic at the state and local levels. But in the presidential election of 2000, it abruptly shifted sides, casting five electoral votes for Republican George W. Bush. Forget Florida. Forget Tennessee (the home state of Democratic nominee Al Gore), which the Democrats also lost. If West Virginia had remained in the Democratic column that year, Mr. Gore would have been elected president.

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  1. Wintermute writes
    May 16th, 2008 8:23 pm

    Al ignored some of his old-time Tennessee friends, preferring “national” consultants, and took the whole state for granted; hence he lost.

    But heck, Al wanted to be a preacher anyway; and now he leads the cult of global warming and gets to hobnob internationally rather than grunge around on his “farm.”

    Al is not really an authentic man of the people; and he never would have been elected to anything had he not been Al Gore Sr.’s son.

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