# What if Al Gore hadn't run in 2000?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 26, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-al-gore-hadnt-run-in-2000/726199 "2015-07-26T00:05:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-al-gore-hadnt-run-in-2000/726199/21 "2015-11-23T12:36:35Z")

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> [@Futurist110](#):
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> Wasn’t Bradley too progressive for most Democrats in 2000, though? After all, weren’t centrist “New Democrats” all the rage back in 2000?

YOu’ve got it backwards, I think: Bradley was the ‘New Democrat’ in the race. But Dems like that were always more the rage among the pundit class than among actual Democratic voters.

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**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-al-gore-hadnt-run-in-2000/726199/22 "2015-11-23T12:38:28Z")

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A lot would depend on WHEN Gore said he wasn’t running. If he made his intentions clear at the beginning of 1999, then the field’s wide open. If at the end of 1999, then Bradley coasts to victory. If in between, it kinda depends on when.

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