Why didnt Al Gore run on a platform of "if it aint broke, dont fix it" in 2000?

[Mr.Phips]

I mean seriously, in 2000, things were going almost perfectly.  No wars, a great economy, and three straight years of budget surplus.  This type of message was part of Bush 41's successful 1988 campaign, so why didnt Gore use this in 2000?

[7,052,770]

For some reason, he thought the swing voters hated Clinton over the Monica scandal.

[Blue3]

We now think things were pretty good back then in hindsight, but in 2000 there were not many people who thought all was good. I guess we just had higher expectations back then.

[Mr.Phips]

For some reason, he thought the swing voters hated Clinton over the Monica scandal.

Clinton wouldnt have had a 70% approval rating in 2000 without swing voters strongly approving of him.

[muon2]

Things were noticeably broke in the markets in 2000. The dot com bubble popped in March 2000 and the Dow flatlined losing 6% of its value that year. The Nasdaq lost so much value that people began to joke about their retirement plans becoming 201k's instead of 401k's.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Warm fuzzy 90s nostalgia needs to burn in Hell.

[Mr.Phips]

Things were noticeably broke in the markets in 2000. The dot com bubble popped in March 2000 and the Dow flatlined losing 6% of its value that year. The Nasdaq lost so much value that people began to joke about their retirement plans becoming 201k's instead of 401k's.

Most of the decline didn't occur until right after the election.  Consumer confidence and right/track wrong figures were all extremely positive until that point as well.

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Things were noticeably broke in the markets in 2000. The dot com bubble popped in March 2000 and the Dow flatlined losing 6% of its value that year. The Nasdaq lost so much value that people began to joke about their retirement plans becoming 201k's instead of 401k's.

The economy wasn't in recession once during the 8 years of the Clinton administration.

[muon2]

Things were noticeably broke in the markets in 2000. The dot com bubble popped in March 2000 and the Dow flatlined losing 6% of its value that year. The Nasdaq lost so much value that people began to joke about their retirement plans becoming 201k's instead of 401k's.

Most of the decline didn't occur until right after the election.  Consumer confidence and right/track wrong figures were all extremely positive until that point as well.

The NASDAQ fell from roughly 5000 to 3000 in the six months before the election, and was down to 2400 by Dec 31. Major industries and the larger jobs market did not feel the dot com pop until 2001, and that figures into consumer confidence. But in the tech sector of the economy jobs and income were being lost at a great rate throughout the summer of 2000. If Gore was looking for the vote of the young entrepreneurial tech worker, a message that the economy was fine was going to look out of touch.