Gore became the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election on August 17, 2000.
On November 7, 2000, showed that Gore's opponent, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, had narrowly won the election.
Gore won the national popular vote but lost the electoral college vote after a bitter legal battle over disputed vote counts in the state of Florida.
Bush won the election on the electoral college vote of 271 to 266. One elector pledged to Gore did not cast an electoral vote; Gore received 267 pledged electors.
The election was one of the most controversial in American history.
Litoria singadanae
Litoria singadanae is a frog from Papua New Guinea. As of 2007, scientists had only found it in one place. It lives in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
The male adult is about 2.9 cm long and the female is 3.4 cm long. It is green in color. It is different from other frogs because is tympanum, or eardrum, is clear. Scientists have found this frog 1200 metres above sea level on the Huon Peninsula.
George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign
The 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the 46th Governor of Texas, was formally launched on June 14, 1999 as Governor Bush, the eldest son of former President George H.W. Bush announced his plans to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election.
Bush began the campaign as the front runner among Republicans because many people knew his name, high funds, and control of the governorship of Texas and polls starting in 1997 showed Bush leading every opponent by double digits.
The main challenger to Bush was Senator John McCain, who appealed to moderate Republicans.
Bush won the majority of the primaries and after the March 2000 Super Tuesday contests he was well ahead in delegates of both McCain and Alan Keyes. On August 3, 2000 Bush won the Republican nomination at the Republican Convention with the support of 2,058 delegates. Dick Cheney, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, was nominated as vice president despite Cheney recommending former Missouri Senator John Danforth.
Throughout the majority of the primary and general campaign seasons Bush was leading Gore in the polls. On November 7, 2000, it was projected that Bush had won in Florida and its 25 electoral votes.
Gore won the national popular vote but the Gore campaign lost the electoral college vote after a legal battle over disputed vote counts. Bush won the election on the electoral college vote of 271 to 266.
Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign
The 2012 reelection campaign of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was formally announced on April 4, 2011. Along with his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden.
Barack Obama ran in the general election against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, along with many minor candidates from other parties. The election took place on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
Obama's campaign headquarters was in Chicago and key members of his successful campaign in 2008, such as Jim Messina and David Axelrod, returned to staff it.
On the day of the announcement, the campaign released a promotional video showing supporters of Obama organizing for the re-election effort. As "The Guardian" newspaper noted, this was the first U.S. presidential reelection campaign to use Facebook and Twitter for promotion.
Between early-2011 and June 30, 2012, the Obama campaign and supporters spent about $400 million, according to the Federal Election Commission. Obama won his reelection bid by a margin of 51.06 to 47.21%. This was the first time since 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election, that a Democratic president had won by a majority of the electoral votes and over 51% of the popular vote twice.
George H. W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign
The 1988 presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush began on October 13, 1987, when Bush, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, announced he was running for the Republican Party's nomination in the 1988 U.S. presidential election.
Bush won the 1988 election against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis on November 8, 1988. He was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1989.
Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign
The 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis began when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's 1988 presidential nomination on March 16, 1987, in a speech in Boston.
After winning the nomination, he became the Democratic Party's nominee at the party's convention in Atlanta, Georgia on July 21, 1988. He lost the 1988 election to his Republican opponent George H. W. Bush, who was the sitting Vice President at the time.
Dukakis won 10 states and the District of Columbia, receiving a total of 111 electoral votes compared to Bush's 426 (Dukakis would have received 112, but one faithless elector who was pledged to him voted for Bentsen for president and Dukakis for vice president instead out of protest). Dukakis received 46% of the popular vote to Bush's 54%.
Many commentators blamed Dukakis' loss on the embarrassing photograph of him in a tank taken on September 13, 1988. Much of the blame was also laid on Dukakis' campaign, which was criticized for being poorly managed despite being well funded.
He would have been the first Greek American President.
Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign
The 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, was announced on October 3, 1991 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 1992, the campaign announced that then-junior Senator from Tennessee, Al Gore, would be Clinton's running mate.
The Clinton-Gore ticket went on to defeat Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle in the presidential election on November 3, 1992, and took office as the 42nd President and 45th Vice President on January 20, 1993.
Walter Mondale 1984 presidential campaign
The 1984 presidential campaign of Walter Mondale, a former Minnesota senator and Vice President of the United States, began on February 21, 1983, when Mondale announced that he was running for president in a speech at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Mondale won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination after convincing Frank Lautenberg to support him. Lautenberg's vote gave Mondale the 1,967 delegate votes needed to become the Democratic Party's nominee.
Mondale lost the general election, held on November 6, 1984, to incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan in a landslide.
Antonio Guzmán Fernández
Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández (February 12, 1911 – July 4, 1982), best known as Antonio Guzmán, was a Dominican businessman and a politician. He was the 46th President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982.
Jacobo Majluta Azar
Jacobo Majluta Azar (October 9, 1934 – March 2, 1996) was a Dominican politician. He was Vice President of the Dominican Republic during the Antonio Guzmán Fernández presidency between 1978 to 1982. He became President of the Dominican Republic after Guzmán Fernández killed himself in 1982. He was president for a month between July to August 1982.
Majluta Azar died on March 2, 1996 in Tampa, Florida of lung cancer.
Luis Abinader
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist and politician. In 2020, he was elected President of the Dominican Republic. He was the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.
Sybil Wettasinghe
Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe () (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a Sri Lankan children's book writer and an illustrator. Wettasinghe wrote more than 200 children's books which have been translated into several languages. Two of her best known works are "Child In Me" and "Eternally Yours". She was born in Galle, Sri Lanka.