Election 2000
When looking at the famous Presidential Election of 2000, it is hard to find one word to describe all of it. Long, Confusing, Entertaining, Historic. It was an event like no other in American history. However, with every election, it was all about numbers. The number that describes the election is 537 because it was 537 people that made current Republican President George W. Bush's the winner of the Election of 2000. Those votes wound up giving him the 25 electoral votes he needed to reach a total of 271, one more than needed to win the election. In simpler terms, only 537 Americans were the difference between who would sit in the White House and who wouldn't. The two candidates running in the Election were George Bush of the Republican Party and Al Gore for the Democratic Party. George Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut to his parents, George and Barbara Bush. He grew up in midland, Houston, Texas. He has four younger siblings: Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. A younger sister, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of three. Like his father, Bush was educated at Phillips Academy (Andover) (September 1961 - June 1964) and Yale University (September 1964 - May 1968). He was active in sports and played baseball and r
There are many foreign policies under President Bush's belt. The Election of 2000 was an election for the ages. Shortly after, he began a career in the oil industry under his company, Arbusto Energy. He earned 15 million dollars when he eventually sold the team to a close friend after he became the Governor of Texas (Wales 2). Bush supporters claim that this act should boost and raise the economy while his critics say the act favors the interest of the rich and wealthy. After experience there, he went to Harvard University to complete his Masters of Business Administration (MBA), which made him the first President to hold that degree. In the election of 2000, if anyone voted for Nader, it would basically count as a vote for Bush because it takes away more votes that should have gone to Al Gore if Nader was not running. In healthcare, Bush is planning added prescription drug coverage to boost the financial gain of the drug companies. In Civil Rights, Bush hoped to ban same-sex marriage. Later in his life, he decided to run for Presidential election. He faced criticism by selling his stock and receiving insider trading tips but soon the heat on him passed, because his father was the President of the United States at that time. After being discharged, Al went to work at a local Tennessee newspaper. Nader wrote and released "Unsafe at Any Speed" criticizing US automobiles of being unsafe. Later, Gore quit law school to run for the House, in the state of Tennessee, defeating Stanley Rogers, then took over the Senate seat left by Howard Baker, and then was elected Vice President with Bill Clinton.
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