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...will face expectations that will be hard to fulfill--especially if he wants to be a national candidate someday. "My greatest fear for Barack is that he'll be in the background, another black face in the sea of whiteness," says Donna Brazile, a veteran strategist who ran Al Gore's campaign in 2000. For now, she says, "he doesn't have to become the next black leader. He has to become a great Senator from the state of Illinois...
...said entertainers like Goldberg represented "the heart and soul of America." He did not criticize the mayor of San Francisco when he broke the law to perform gay marriages. He condoned late-term abortions. He had nothing to say about Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast flash. Unlike Al Gore, he did not even give a speech supporting faith-based social programs. To religious conservatives, he seemed a secular extremist. The Democrats have paid a heavy and honorable price for their support of equal rights-first for African Americans and now for homosexuals...
Since 1980, exit polls have been the primary means of predicting election winners. But after the 2000 election, when exit polls caused the media to vacillate between calling Florida for President Bush, or for former Vice President Al Gore ’69, networks have been more cautious about declaring the winner based on only exit poll results...
...points in “smaller cities.” He improved his share of the vote in every geographic area of the country, with his greatest percentage gains coming in the Northeast. And he increased his portion of the vote in 15 of the 20 states that Al Gore won in 2000, including New York and Massachusetts...
Bush narrowly defeated Vice President Al Gore ’69 to win the state in the 2000 presidential election...