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« on: February 27, 2010, 02:01:46 AM »

Other than the Nader vote and Gore running a poor campaign, were there any other reasons why Gore lost in NH in 2000?
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2010, 02:41:52 AM »

New Hampshire was a traditionally Republican state and Nader took away enough votes to keep Gore away from victory.
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2010, 11:47:50 AM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2010, 05:23:38 PM »

I think the biggest mistake of the Gore campaign.  If he spent half of the time he did in Florida on New Hampshire instead, he'd win NH and the election.
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2010, 05:25:15 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2010, 06:03:31 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...

Maybe people associated Bush Jr. with Bush Sr. (even though Jr. acted more conservative).
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2010, 09:05:45 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...

Maybe people associated Bush Jr. with Bush Sr. (even though Jr. acted more conservative).

Bush was perceived as fairly moderate, yet still conservative in 2000.
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2010, 09:14:43 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...

Maybe people associated Bush Jr. with Bush Sr. (even though Jr. acted more conservative).

Bush was perceived as fairly moderate, yet still conservative in 2000.

Like McCain was?
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2010, 09:25:57 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...

Maybe people associated Bush Jr. with Bush Sr. (even though Jr. acted more conservative).

Bush was perceived as fairly moderate, yet still conservative in 2000.

Like McCain was?

I thought McCain was perceived as semi-RINOish.
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2010, 12:21:22 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...

Well he never had it as much as his father (hence why he did much worse than his dad in the Northeast), but in 2000 he was perceived as relatively moderate ("compassionate conservatism", "a uniter not a divider", etc).
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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2010, 12:28:31 PM »

Gore did not try as much as he should have. If he would have tried, and would have not took everything for granted he would have won.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 03:36:39 PM »

Al Gore was the democratic Nominee.
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2010, 04:13:11 PM »

New Hampshire is a swing state that can go either way in a close national election and 22,198 leftists in the state were too immature to vote like adults.
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2016, 07:53:46 PM »
« Edited: May 07, 2016, 04:38:46 PM by Speaker Kent »

Are you seriously bumping a six-year old thread to continue your anti-New Hampshire GOP "crusade"?
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2016, 07:56:25 PM »

Are you seriously bumping a six-year thread to continue your anti-New Hampshire GOP "crusade"?

Are you seriously still pretending that you're not going to vote for Trump in November?
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« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2016, 05:49:56 PM »

John McCain.
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« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2016, 08:10:03 AM »

Pretty simple.  Gore gave up on New Hampshire after the primary.  He literally made only ONE campaign visit there in the general election race.  By not putting more resources into the state, he basically handed it to Bush.

And don't blame Nader, either.  The statewide exit polls in NH showed Nader taking significantly more votes from Bush than from Gore.
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« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2017, 08:11:50 PM »

Sadf!
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« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2017, 07:31:37 PM »

Bush's reputation as a relatively moderate Republican was still intact, hence helping explain why he did relatively well in upper New England that year (VT, NH, and ME). Plus the gun control issue probably didn't help Gore any in these states (and its salience as a political issue probably peaked in 2000).

You mean Bush I? Bush Jr. didn't seem to have that moderate thing going at all...
No Child Left Behind, support for the Assaul Weapons Ban, Medicare Part D, etc.
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2017, 07:56:23 PM »

I am more interested on how Gore lost his own home state.
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« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2017, 05:13:46 PM »

New Hampshire is a swing state that can go either way in a close national election and 22,198 leftists in the state were too immature to vote like adults.

So voting for the candidate of your choice is childish?
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« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2017, 05:50:11 PM »

I am more interested on how Gore lost his own home state.

The state simply moved rightwards of him and polarization was beginning to take effect even then.

No one would've expected Paul Ryan to defeat Obama in Wisconsin, no would've expected John Edwards to win North Carolina against Bush.
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« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2017, 05:32:57 PM »

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this but doesn't NH have a reputation for a mild ('non-interventionist') tack in foreign affairs which aligned with Bush's criticism of the Clinton administration's policy of nation-building? A large part of of the reason the state flipped in 2004.
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« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2017, 09:01:14 PM »

Bush was moderate also and NH was historically a red state.
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