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Even If I Win The 2000 Election
“Even if I win, I can’t win” is an infamous phrase that was stated by Al Gore during the presidential election of 2000 when he unjustly lost to George W. Bush. Indisputably, the election of 2000 between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore was illegitimate for multifarious reasons. Primarily, the election was invalid as the hand recount came to a screeching halt in the case Bush v. Gore which in a per curiam decision the court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause was violated. In the state of Florida, on the morning of November 8, Bush had 2,909,135 votes while Gore closely followed behind with 2,907,351. A mere difference of 1,784 votes or .03%. By the end of the extended recount deadline (which only resulted after various
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