Did Tipper and Lieberman hurt Gore with young voters?

[FriendlyRanger]

As a first time voter in 2000, I was incredibly upset when Gore picked Lieberman to be his running mate. As a history buff, I knew all about the PMRC and how it came to be (Purple Rain came with a lyric sheet, maybe Tipper Gore should have read it before she let her daughter listen to the album) so I already was unhappy about the prospect of the Second Lady becoming First Lady. Joe Lieberman, who was criticizing musicians and video games for school shootings, made Gore look like a clueless, out of touch, Boomer who might not have actually wanted to win. To 18-year-old me, other than a difference in religion, there really wasn't much about Joe Lieberman that was different from Al Gore. While there hadn't been much difference at all between Bill Clinton and Al Gore politically, Bill Clinton had charisma. Al Gore needed a running mate who would electrify his campaign or, at the very least, bring in some constituency that Gore struggled with.

I actually didn't vote for the Democratic ticket that year. I resigned myself to writing in Gore with a running mate I preferred. Most of my friends that could have voted either didn't or voted for Nader.

[FriendlyRanger]

Lieberman may have also been intended to appeal to Cuban Exiles and Florida Jews.

Lieberman may have helped with Cuban exiles- there were plenty of articles from the fall of 2000 about Lieberman's popularity with that group- and Jews in Florida, but if Gore really wanted to win the state of Florida outright, maybe there was a popular sitting Senator from Florida who had previously served as their Governor that could have helped to make a Gore candidacy much stronger statewide. Much as 2016 (at least to me), it seemed like Gore thought he could win with anybody as his running mate.