Explain How Successful Was George W Bush's 2000 President In 2000

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George W. Bush ran for president in 2000. The candidates running against Bush included: Al Gore for the Democratic party and a third party candidate Ralph Nader. During the election, the United States was dealing with many different issues. Some of these issues were health care, the economy and education (George). Bush made promises for his campaign based on the issues that the United States was associated with. Bush’s 2000 campaign was successful because of his domestic promises, Gore’s failures, and Nader taking votes away from Gore. George W. Bush’s campaign was successful for many different reasons. One reason his campaign was successful was his domestic promises. Bush’s promises were made to help fix issues in the United States. …show more content…
also known as Al Gore. While Gore was running for president he was serving as the vice president of the United States. He served as vice president under the President Bill Clinton. During Gore’s time as vice president, he got to experience opportunities such as meeting foreign statesmen and getting to know what it was like to be the highest level of government. Gore’s opportunity to meet foreign statesmen while serving as vice president allowed him to make himself known past America. Gore got to see what it was like as the highest person in government and how it worked. He used this to give him knowledge of what it would be like if he got elected president. Gore used his opportunities to help him in the future. Although Gore was still serving as vice president under President Bill Clinton during his campaign he decided that he needed to distance himself from him. Gore needed to distance himself due to decisions that Clinton made. He distanced himself from Clinton because his decisions might be seen as a liability to him in the upcoming election. Eventually, Gore was able to keep himself away from Clinton. With Gore distancing himself from Clinton came consequences. One of these consequences was Gore ran the risk of being unable to campaign effectively. Gore runs the risks of being unable to campaign effectively (Vice). Another reason that Gore did not win the election was believed to be because he …show more content…
Bush was elected as the 43rd president of the United States. He was elected when he won the electoral votes. Although Bush did not win popular votes he did win the electoral votes which were the important part. Al Gore won the popular vote but these votes did not ultimately matter (George). Things that helped George W. Bush win were the promises he made based on current issues in the United States, and the votes that Ralph Nader took away from Al Gore. After Bush was elected for president he did not follow through and fulfill his promises. Al Gore’s campaign failed because of his lack of not knowing which side he wanted to take in his debates and running away from Clinton. Americans did not like how Gore did not choose which side he wanted to be on in his debates (Nader Comments). Gore believed that if he did not distance himself from Clinton then he would affect his campaign (Vice). Ralph Nader helped Bush become more successful in his campaign by simply running for president. Although Nader knew he would not win the election, he knew he could affect it. Nader’s name on the ballot took votes away from Democrat candidate Gore (Nader). Bush’s campaign was successful because of Gore’s bad advisors that helped with his campaign. These advisors did not help him with trying to win the election (Nader

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