I watch these videos purely for leisure purposes.

The moment when gore creepily walks over into bushs grill during a debate and bush shakes his head to him is my favorite moment

First time watching one of your videos and laughed out loud at "Gnome Chomsky" haha. Thanks a bunch Mr. Hughes.

If Al gore won new hampshire, he would be the victor

Hey Ms. Berry, Thanks for watching. The song is called Happy Hip, it is in a music bank, AudioMicro that Maker Studios gives us Partners access to. You can imagine why I was attracted to the title and obviously it works well for my intros. #meanttobe

Between this one and his one on court packing, I find it hilarious in 2020 to watch these videos when they start out under the assumption that their for people studying for tests and nerds. Years later, we’re watching them for reference to current events

Blame me: A Tennessean who voted for Ralph Nader but one could also blame Florida for not knowing how to count. I still have a 1 ounce coin that has Gore on one side and Bush II on the other and both sides say "President of the United States".

Thanks so so much i love you man!!! been waiting for this one you rock!!!

Love these videos,keep it up!

Please excuse my sarcasism, if anything you are crazy like a fox. And if watching videos for pure interest is crazy then I would be in a white padded room by now. And thanks for watching!

Lol, I've been watching Hughes' vids for a few years, but I never relized he DOES look like Drew Carey. Ha!

I would say a mixture of Patton Oswalt and Drew Cary! When I first saw your video I thought you were someone famous. Now that I realize you're not anyone famous, I really think you oughta be. You have a fantastic presents and really know how to teach. Please keep doing videos Keith. They increase my gray matter and provide vital entertainment for my impartial political mind to also help teach.

Hey Keith, you're awesome! Thank you so much!

2000 was the 1st Presidential election I voted in as I was only 21 then & I was 17 in 1996 & thus couldn't vote then. I remember this quite well... My girls were babies then...

Some inaccuracies and/or missing information about this election: 1. Recounts must be state-wide, no provision exists for recounts of cherry-picked counties. 2, The Gore position was that they were not asking for "recount" but that some votes were not counted, and thus he was asking to "complete the count'. Much of the legal positioning revolved around how legitimate this difference was. 3. Courts recognized that in every election, some votes are miscounted or erroneously not counted. This is just a matter of statistics when millions of votes are cast. The expectation is that both candidates will suffer equally from these aberrations, and the net effect will be equal. 4. The Gore position then was clarified to say that because these 4 particular counties were heavily democratic, the aberrations here had an unequal effect, in other words, he was hurt more than Bush. 5. The Gore camp did not particularly want a state-wide count, because this could not be absolutely relied upon on to benefit him, it could just as easily have hurt him. As an example, many thousands of absentee ballots from servicemen would arrive and be counted. These ballots often arrive late and are not counted (even though legally they should be), and servicemen vote overwhelmingly Republican. Florida has historically had a large number of servicemen. 6. The Gore position crystallized around the idea that he wanted to "complete the count" in these four counties, and to do so the recounters must attempt to interpret what the voters INTENDED when they cast their vote. 7. The courts eventually rejected this position. Their judgement was that government must treat voters like adults. Government does not go to the voter's houses, and drive them to the ballot, nor sit in the voting booth explaining to them which button to push. Government must rely upon the voter to take himself to vote, to examine the ballot himself, and to select his candidate, and ask for assistance if he finds the ballot confusing. 8. Likewise, the courts rejected the attempt to call the desired actuon "completing the count", instead of "recount", and judged that a recount can only be done state-wide, and according to the laws of the state. A candidate may not demand a recount in only a few counties, or violate other state laws relating to time limits for requesting and completing a recount. 9. Similarly, the courts decided that a candidate may not demand that ballots which were discarded because they were not completed correctly (ie: hanging chad) should be re-examined to try to determine what the voter INTENDED. If the voter failed to use the voting machinery correctly, his vote does not count.

I really like your election series even though it is a lot of info is impossible to packed in a single video however I can see that there’s no bias in the way you’re coming across I don’t know what kind of political affiliation you have but you are strictly sticking to providing the info and how it was perceived during that time

Hey Keith, are you doing a 2016 election video? You do an excellent job at analysis!!

finally made sense to me! bless you!

Hello from the 2020 election!

You deserve far more views!

What really made the Florida Recount into the fiasco which we all remember was Winner-Take-All. That's the game where the Big Two Parties play for all of a state's electors by winning the minimal popular majority possible; it also shuts out any potential third-party candidate from the tally. Winner-Take-All put all 25 Florida electorships at stake. If that state had vote-by district like in Maine or Nebraska - where only two electors are chosen statewide, the rest by congressional district - then only three electorships, not 25, would have been at stake in a recount. Florida would have split 14-11 for Bush. Not that anyone would have cared because, instead of Bush 271-266 Gore, the final tally would have been Bush 260-277 Gore. You read that right: Gore would have won the 2000 Election if Florida had vote-by-district. Funny how the mainstream media never picked up on this.

Actually Al Gore was more small government fiscally conservative and publicly hawkish than George W. Bush. BTW, one question that needs to be addressed is why the Supreme Court struck their decision from being used as legal precedent for all time.

Given the financial lock and history of parties, personally I think its tough to break out of the two party mold. It is constitutional and technically it could happen tomorrow.

Prof hip Hughes, I love this style of teaching. Is this just for KZfaq or do u do it like this in class, with a screen behind you, i must say, You get me excited to become a teacher. with todays technology the old school boring lectures can become obsolete thanks.

I always love reading you classy replies. :)

Hip Hues is the comedian of truth and education!!! You can learn a lot from this man and laugh all along!

Excellent, enjoyed that. 47 year old know all from Ireland.

Hey, looks like you are into KZfaq like I am. I love this technology and platform and work very hard in organizing fresh playlists and spreading them online. I have been perform this for a few years and now becoming good at it. Soon I am launching a company that will facilitate other You Tubers in promoting their channels.

PLEASE do a video on Benghazi! its one of those things that young people around my age have a hard time understanding or getting info and context. there are many things in recent history that we are left out of the loop of.

Just imagine how much better the world would be if Gore won....if not purely from a perspective of a non damaging person getting in.

One of the things that killed Gore was 2 fold...1) the elian Gonzalez issue. A lot of Cubans who would have voted for Gore went out in huge numbers (highest ever) and voted Bush. A lot of Cubans felt betrayed by Clinton and gore was guilty by association. 2) Miami had a VERY popular cuban mayor named Alex Penelas at the time. He denounced Gore and said something to the effect of Gore was a low class garbage of which Gore said Penelas was one of the most vile people he has ever met. That to did not help him. Add in florida being run by his brother (bush) and so on, and well that's also how an election (at least fla) is lost.

My god, this is a different W!

You are a smart smart man, the Gnome does know all.

See, you mentioned looking more like Drew Carey but I get more of a Patton Oswalt vibe. Maybe it's just me... anyway, I'm a Presidential election junkie and enjoy your videos!!

I promised him I wouldn't call him back...absolutely marvellous

If only Gore had won, many lives would have probably have been saved.

Can someone explain to this Brit what difference the media calling a state for one candidate makes? I don't get it.

I believe I can fly.

This election deserves a big description!

Souter was appointed by George HW Bush and dissented in Bush v Gore So it wasn't 5-4 republican appointees v democrat appointees

When looking at the 2000 election, "Too Close To Call" by Jeffery Toobin is a neccessity

13:54 Coincidence? three of the four presidents he names who lost the popular vote also had a relative elected president. That was my thought. Damn Hayes.

Yes, you are correct, even AP Gov teachers have video cameras in their phones, however I use a Canon XH-A1. I'd respond to your Illumanti style comment but the noise from the black helicopters is too bothersome.

Gore should have picked someone other than Lieberman as his VP and he also should have allowed Bill Clinton to tour with him during Gore's 2000 campaign.

I very much like you not saying that a 3rd party vote was not stealing from someone else. That was very cool of you.

ok Hughes, but wait in line for your TSA exam :)

I was about to remind people about the distancing of gore from Clinton during his campaign but you beat me too it. But I also want to add, not only was Ralph Nader important in this, he may have played a role in Florida. Some gore supporters said that there was no way some counties had as many Nader votes as it was suggesting. I’m addition of the hanging chads being counted or not some people may have intended to vote for gore but instead selected Nader. Many on the bush side argue that it shouldn’t matter because whoever was in charge of ballast design approved it’s design before the election. Good video.

Honestly no, although I thought my idea was original, I apparently stole it from the stream of universal consciousness that your "Tarpley" obviously contributed the idea to first.

There was also a perception among Americans in 1999 that Bush was "too dumb" for the job, as reflected by his "C" grades at Yale, fratboy lifestyle, and bad decisions as a former alcoholic. Although minor, it was another reason why the nation was shocked after the Election of 2000.

Helps me study for my constitutional law !!!

Spot on analysis. I think that might be the worse VP President ever, right up there with McGovern's Eagleton and Perot's Stockdale. "Who am I? Why am I here?"

Cool

I try my best, being a statist and all. But thanks for the props and your welcome.

The first one I was alive for

This is going to happen again in 2020 except the states will be Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

I am a grammar butcher. thanks for the mopping up. :)

“The one for the record books”. Lulz

Wow! I Can't Believe He got Keemstar To Cohost!!!

look closely at michigan on the electoral map. that tiny little island bit northwest of the upper peninsula looks red, why isn't it blue???

Gnome Chomsky 😂😂😂

24 years ago....

you should do more ron paul trolling

Lol! Awesome video.

We haven't recovered from the 2000 election result(s), and I don't think we ever will. This country will have to wait a long time to recover, that's for sure.

It is also a fact that 4 out of 5 Narnian residents thinks your facts are chalk full of doopy. And no one says retards anymore, it is so 1988.

shannon county, SD so interesting...

my fear is I alienate my edu subscribers and taint my teacher "non bias" label. but Ihave thought about it. it makes sense. and thanks for the advice by the way I appreciate it.

When did Al Gore fight Man Bear Pig in 2000?

Make a video on Bush's era and Bush Doctrine.

George Bush has a brain? Sorry I couldn't resist.

With the technology that exists today, it is amazing that paper is still being used for recording votes. There has to be reason for this. I wonder if a box of ballots is misplaced from time to time in any given precinct.

I got a push-poll one time.

I enjoy these videos. As a European, I get most information about these elections from TV shows and that's obviously incredibly inaccurate.

I do recall that Romney lost his home state of Massachusetts in the 2012 election.

Due 20088 and 2012

lol Gnome Chompsky

But I thought that the US Supreme Court let Florida’s Supreme Court have the final decisión :/ am i wrong ??

Sure thing! Give me a call. Msg me or tweet me.

Can the United States break the 2-party system? If so, how practical is it?

Is there not a political current for voting reform in the US to A) make 3rd parties more viable options B) Prevent this odd nonsense from occurring and C) If not included in B, change to a more democratic system than an elite electoral college?

Good example of how independents drive elections. The turnout was so awful for this election, the bases ended up canceling each other out. 2016 is another good example. Huge amount of undecideds on 2 very unpopular candidates late into the cycle. One candidate had the bigger Presidential base, but needed enough indies to bring home a electoral victory while the other needed a big enough indie surge to squeak out a electoral victory with a popular vote victory being close to impossible. Indies swerve to the other candidate late in the process and create another electoral victory "surprise". Independents control elections. Period. People talk about based, but those undecideds are usually not affiliated with either party.

The 2-party system is horrible in our country. There is no change, and both parties are very much alike. Any third party can't even compete with the 2 main parties, whom has rigged the election process to exclude and ignore 3rd party candidates. I'm sure there are issues with multi-party systems too. I personally prefer a system where people would vote on issues, and the candidate who most embody those issues is selected.

537 votes out of 103 million decided this one.

And three exclamation points don't make a fact a fact. (!!!)

Gnome Chomsky.... LOL

The GOP debate is run by the political party, so it really has little to do with the Constitution, the party is an independent venture, they can do as they please. As for the major debates, Johnson, polled at 1%.... should be let everyone who polls at 1% debate? the Green Party? The Socialist Party? Im just being Devils advocate.. I would of loved a rowdy debate with some differentiation between the two parties.

Somehow, Mr. Hughes seems to be lacking in the actual mechanicals of what happened here. If I may be so bold.... According to our United States Constitution, (Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2) State Legislators are empowered to chose the state electors to the Electoral College, nobody else. The Florida state legislature was Republican. The left leaning Florida Supreme Court stepped in at the request of the Al Gore campaign. The court never had any business to do that, but they were intent on directing the Florida election board to recount the votes under increasingly flawed standards. Recounting in only a few districts for example. The Supreme Court intervened in the 2000 Florida election not to chose a President, but to reign in the Florida Supreme Court from over stepping its authority. According to the Constitution, the Florida State legislature was the only body responsible for settling this issue, not the Florida Supreme Court. On November 26, 2000 after Florida's returns had been certified by Katherine Harris, Governor Jeb Bush sent a Certificate of Ascertainment to the Archivist of the United States certifying the election of the Republican slate of Electors to the Electoral College as required by federal statute. Once Jeb Bush did that, no authority, State or Federal, Legislative or Judicial, could force him to withdraw the certification. Now, his certification could have been challenged in Congress when the Electoral College votes were counted, but federal law recognizes no other authority, other than the Governor, to certify the Electors. Second, once the electoral votes were counted in Congress, a challenge of the Florida vote would have required a majority vote in each house of Congress. An unlikely scenario since the House was controlled by Republicans in 2000. You need both houses to do it, but the Republicans controlled the House of Representatives. Even if that hurdle had been jumped, the House would then have been required to chose the President of the United States by a majority of the State Delegations. Again, in 2000, the House was controlled by Republicans. Had a challenge still been made, the Senate, which was split 50/50 along party lines, would have selected the Vice President with the Pres′ident pro tem′pore. Al Gore, the sitting Vice President, and running for President, would have essentially voted himself into office. He would have had the deciding vote if both parties voted 50/50. That was the only path Al Gore had to the Presidency, but it was never going to get that far.

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With our current level of political division and hot tempers if we ever had a 269-269 electoral college tie it would be a disaster.

What say you Sir Torment? Explain. Hughes confused easily.

So your idea is Dems who needed every vote in a close election told its base to vote for the other guy? That does not sound like a good plan at all. Although yesterday I wanted a snickers so I hit the button for a butterfinger just so I could protest and get a snickers later. Needless to say that did not work out either.

Box marked Abby Normal

Just with my wife. and barely....

I remember this mess.

Oh goodness.

I'd be happier if popular vote elected the president and it was done via Instant Runoff Voting, although I recognize that nothing short of a constitutional amendment would make that happen. How about you, what is your opinion on electoral systems?

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So Gore didn’t invent the inter web?

Joseph Lieberman died. I'd be more upset if he hadn't been to the Clinton administration what Joseph Manchin was to the Biden administration.

I fall into the "Weirdos on the Inter-webs" category who is something of a political obsessive. BTW you look like Hank Green.