I think he might just have a fetish for losing.

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    Oh yes; I remember the Brooks Brothers riot.

    Begging the question — was Al Gore a particularly popular vice president?

    Having lived through it, I would say no.

    Which doesn’t mean Dubya was wildly popular. Only that Al wasn’t.

    Whether Dubya won legitimately, the national mood wasn’t four more years of Clinton.

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      Between the two, you had one that constantly made shit up like “I made the internet” and one that couldn’t pronounce nuclear.

      The fact that it got down to the chads are a better indicator to our split as a country.

      At the time climate was a hot topic and we pushed hard to get gore in as best we could.

      IIRC the chad was in Florida, which is pretty handicapped red.

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      Trumps approval rating when he was elected the second time was 47%. Al Gore’s approval rating when he lost the 2000 election was 62%.

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      Should’ve called it the Brook Brothers coup. Because in retrospect, that’s what it was.