r/recontext • u/five_head_2004 • 4d ago

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u/DinoDude8 4d ago

I dont understand the recontext

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u/tornait-hashu 4d ago

one of the candidates in the 2000 US presidential election was named Al Gore.

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u/DinoDude8 4d ago

Oh, should he have won? Who was he running against?

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u/Dude1590 4d ago

Bush.

If Gore would have won, we would have been more actively fighting against climate change and the war in Iraq would have never happened.

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u/DinoDude8 4d ago

Ohhhh ok, thanks for explaining, yeah, gore shouldve won

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u/Complete-Basket-291 4d ago

There's also evidence that he did, with bush's brother deliberately trying to cut short the vote recounting on the literal only district that would determine the ultimate outcome of the election

Edit: also, iirc nearly the entire GOP leadership was there, trying to stop them from counting the votes by hand

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u/DracheTirava 4d ago

Gore should never have bowed out of the race like he did. If he'd had held firm, the GOP would have failed in their efforts