If you were old enough to remember the 2000 election, how similar is this compared to 2020? A lot of people are drawing comparisons between these two elections. I'm a Zoomer so I wasn't old enough to experience it. It is to my understanding that the msm incorrectly announced Gore to be the winner. Of course the circumstances are much different in 2020 but was the media talking about Gore's transition team like they are with Biden? Were they talking about who Gore's cabinet appointees were going to be? Were they talking about stupid shit like his dogs being the newest pets to the White House? Or was Gore preoccupied with court the whole time? Was everyone calling him "President-Elect?" Ultimately, I believe that Trump will prevail but I am just curious if the msm was playing the same games back then too. I tried to research this before posting but I can't find any answers.
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I was in high school at the time so I vaguely remember it. You have to keep in mind, that in the 90s (and 2000 by extension), people didn't pay all that much attention to politics. Yes, CNN and Fox were around but not as many people were consumed by it as they are today. There wasn't a super strong animosity between Republicans and Democrats either. Yeah tons of people made fun of Florida afterwards but it was pretty clear that Bush had the lead in Florida by 500 votes. So Democrats went to the mat disputing the results. Gore hammed it up, we heard endless crap about the electoral college and how it should be abolished...but people generally doubted Gore's chances.