Bush and Gore: What Went Wrong

Posted in Government & Politics, World History

This News in Review report examines the recent fight for the most powerful political office in the world, an election race that was the closest in over 50 years, and which had an aftermath that was unprecedented. Although we look at two distinct and different approaches in this political competition for the hearts and minds of U.S. voters, we also examine an electoral process that had no immediate winner, that led to a partisan-based struggle and legal challenges that either demonstrated the inexorable democratic process or a fundamental flaw in the constitutional process.

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