Gore wins in 2000

[Indy Prez]

Anthony Kennedy provides the swing vote in Bush v Gore and manbearpig wins Florida by something like a dozen votes.
 He signs the Kyoto Protocol, spends the surplus on a new energy stimulus program (wind, solar, etc) out west as well as bullet train initiatives. He presides over very evenly-balanced Congresses and a term over which the Republican Party (after it's neoconservative wing's highly controversial Iraq war resolution fails). 9/11 is an oppotunity for him to unite the country and get everybody into public service (PeaceCorps).
 Notable cabinet appointees are John McCain as Defense Secretary and Ralph Nader as Energy Secretary
 Liberals love him, conservatives hate him (sound familiar?). However, the economy only slowly recovers from the dotcombust and he is genuinely perceived as a holier-than-thou snob by the people (sound unfamiliar?).
 The Republicans return to their libertarian roots and in 2004 pick popular Governor Jeb Bush and Maine Senator Olympia Snowe to go against him. Social issues like abortion become irrelevant to both major parties and Buchananites are a common feature of General Elections from then on. Illinois remains a battleground state as do Connecticut, Delaware.
 He drops Lieberman from the ticket in favour of Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas.

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