Letters to the Editor
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ShawnWM
"Yes, surely not. But reasoned people would consider the electoral map and the states won and lost by Gore through Kerry rather than hanging on a wind and a prayer against all science."
The states that were won by Kerry and Gore are, by and large, states that Democrats have been winning in every presidential election since 1992.
All a candidate has to do to become president is get five more electoral votes than Al Gore did. Al Gore could have won if he had carried West Virginia!
Fun Trivia fact: Gore won all of the primary and caucus states that Clinton has (by much larger margins) and still lost the electoral college. Kerry won all of the primary and caucus states that Clinton has except Oklahoma (by much larger margins) and still lost the electoral college. In both cases, Gore and Kerry swept through all the primaries, winning far more states by bigger margins than Clinton did and neither became president.