We just barely escaped having Gore as President.
A lot of people will say we didn't do much better, but I am in disagreement with that. Bush had his faults, plenty of them, but he wasn't a total fool like Gore.
No. That's the wrong view. This nation would have been FAR better off had Gore won because he would have had a GOP congress, strongly so, that would have added even more seats in his first mid term, riding roughshod over him and we would have had a fully functioning government at it's finest in terms of checks and balances.
Instead, we got what we got; a disaster followed by Obama.
There is NO way TSA, DHS, Patriot Act, bailing out the UAW, Med D and TARP happens under a D president with a GOP congress. And there sure as flying hell is no way we lose one, let alone two wars. Would a GOP congress even allow D president to invade one country when 15 citizens of another attacked us on 9/11?
Then, there is no way things would have been such a mess by the late 2000's and no way an empty dork like Obama comes to power.