Yep, and Gore was also unprepared to fight. Did you check out this quote from the article that you link to?
That quote says it all. The Gore campaign ran a horrible campaign and the Bush campaign ran an excellent no holds bar campaign.
It's unreal that they weren't planned for these type of contengencies given the tightness of that race. Hell Obama had hundreds of lawyers on the ground in every possible swing state even though it was pretty much a forgone conclusion by election day that he was going to win big.
The bottom line is that Gore ran an inept campaign. If he would have ran a decent campaign, the election would have been closer than 92 or 96, but he would have won more than 300 EV's by carrying Florida comfortably, carrying his home state of Tennessee narrowly (which he didn't even visit), and carrying Ohio narrowly. He could have also possibly squeaked out a win New Hampshire if only he had ran a competent campaign. Here is what the map would have looked like if Gore had have run anything resembling a competent campaign:
