Gore wins FL, NH, OH, and NV in addition to all the states he won in RL. The reason for this is that Americans would be unwilling to vote out an incumbent President while the country had a good economy and no foreign wars.
How was the economy under Ford (serious question)?
Kinda bad, actually. Unemployment was stagnating near 8% for most of 1976. Inflation was kinda-high at 5% (even though it was reduced between 1974 and 1976). In contrast, unemployment was below 4% in November 2000 and inflation was also low.
As a side note, Ford angered a lot of people by pardoning Nixon. What would Gore have done to anger people that much? Clinton wasn't going to go to jail even if he would have been removed from office.