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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Nothing like this. Nothing. Not even close. On a scale of 1 to 10, that was like a 3 in terms of media going crazy. This is a 14.
It seems like that the media was more about the process of creating a circus around ballots in Palm Beach County. Hanging chads, butterfly ballots, etc. and everything else. It was more making jokes about the entire process than anything else. That's about all I remember about it.
I was 19 at the time and first time I voted in an election.