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Gore was the first candidate in a long tome to not win his own state. It cost him the Presidency.

In 2004 if the Democrats had nominated someone from Ohio or Florida who had used a home state bump to win the state Bush would have lost.

 

Maybe . . . for president.

For VICE President? Zero consequence. And that's what we're discussing. Biden's VP pick.

 

Totally agree on Gore, the first candidate who couldn't carry his home state since McGovern (South Dakota) in 1972. If you can't win your home state in a close election, my sympathy for you will generally be limited. Particular when that state is anything but the geographically massive such as California and Texas.

 

Gore lost Tennessee PRECISELY because of his (Jewish) VP. Without Joe on the ticket, Gore would have (narrowly, I admit) won the Volunteer State.

 

If only Trump had lost his home state...

 

Great news everybody! There is zero reason to alter course!

 

I'd say Gore's not winning Tennessee had as much to do with Clinton blowback as Lieberman. He and his dad were Tennessee political royalty for years, then he hitched his wagon to the wrong horse and paid the price.

 

History is shifting under his feet. FATUS and his evil cult are DOA come November.

 

80,000 votes because of a VP pick? And a pretty darn moderate one at that? One who actually scorned Clinton (for those who think Clinton blowback was an issue)? One who, according to the LA Times, "established his credentials as one of Washington’s leading moralists by crusading against Hollywood sex and violence."

 

He did everything in that campaign to distance himself from Clinton.

Once Close to Clinton, Gore Keeps a Distance

 

I don't need the LATimes to tell me what I heard repeatedly from my friends and family in the fall of 2000...had Gore picked a Christian, he would have swung plenty enough votes.