Would a Gore/Graham ticket in 2000 have won the electoral college?

[CoffeePlease1947]

I know Gore really did win Florida, but the close vote allowed it to be ignored. I was reading on the CNN website politics section that Graham was on the short list of VP's for Gore in 2000.
In 2000 Graham would not have been up for reelection and he was extremly popular in the state. Could Gore have won by a larger margin in 2000 and sent Graham to Florida while he concentrated on Tennessee,Arkansas and Missouri and won the election?
I know choosing Lieberman probably got him a few electoral votes, but would have winning Florida and maybe one of the other three states of AR,TN, or Missouri made up for it?

Would the Gore/Graham combination mean that we would have won?
Was the entire pain and agony that we have suffered over the last 3 years all because Gore chose Lieberman instead of Graham for VP?

Mike

[La_Serpiente]

1. Yes

Yes...I have no doubt.

[AP]

2. One problem Graham was having running for president is that the more

he attacked Bush the more dissatisfied his base in FL became -- they thought this isn't the conservative dem we elected!!!

So, if Graham ran agains the governor's brother, he would have been slaughtered. He wouldn't have won FL, and he would have lost his senate seat too.

[Orangepeel]

7. I don't think so.

Gore and Lieberman were running against the governor's brother and they didn't get slaughtered.

At the time, dubya wasn't the incumbant president, so insinuations that it is unpatriotic to criticize him wouldn't have had the same effect as they do now among conservative dems in Florida. In fact, it might have gone the other way, where it would have been disrespectful for republicans to criticize "our beloved Senator Graham" too heavily.

Of course, there's not much use in monday-morning-quarterbacking the situation now. It isn't like a 2004 Gore/Graham ticket would have the same relative advantages that a 2000 Gore/Graham ticket would have had, even if it were a possibility.

[Kahuna]

3. Absolutely!

:grr:

[NicRic]

4. Yes, ultimate ticket however is ....

Gore/Clark, if these two where a team , I dont see anyway bush could beat a dream team like that !

[Taxi Driver]

8. Bah!

Gore isn't really exciting. My impression of him has been tainted by his nomination of Lieberman and his role in the most right-wing Democratic administration since Jefferson Davis.

[59millionmorons]

5. So would a Gore/Byrd ticket

If we win WV, we win. We dont need Florida in 2004 either we just got to get one of the following AR,AZ,WV,NV and keep all the blue states from 2000.

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. That picture just changed dramatically

With Diebold in charge of California's 54 electoral votes :grr:

[RandomUser]

6. Definitely

Graham was the most popular governor that Florida has had in recent history. They would have flocked to him.