The American Presidential Election of 2000

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    The 54th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. In 2000, it's one of the closest elections ever as the Supreme Court has to step in to end the madness. Oh, and we didn't find out the winner for over a month after Election Day. #mrbeat #presidentialelectionsinamericanhistory #elections
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    The 54th Presidential election in American history took place on November 7, 19- I mean, 2000. (The Year 2000) It was the first election I could finally vote in! And boy, was it a messed up one. We wouldn’t even know who won until over a month later.
    As Bill Clinton left office, the economy was strong, and he had a fairly high approval rating. Sure, there was the whole impeachment thing due to the whole Monica Lewinsky thing. Oh yeah, and there was Vince Foster’s suicide, Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, and so forth and so on, but many argue the United States was preparing to enter the 21st century stronger than ever before. Because of this, the Democratic Party went with Clinton’s Vice President, Al Gore, to be their nominee for President. His only real opponent trying to get the nomination was Bill Bradley, the former Senator from New Jersey and former professional basketball player. But Bradley withdrew in March, so it was Gore, with Joe Lieberman, a Senator from Connecticut, as his running mate. Lieberman was the first Jewish candidate on a major political party presidential ticket.
    The Republican Party originally had many candidates trying for the nomination, but most of them didn’t stand much of a chance against George W. Bush, the popular governor of Texas and son of George H.W. Bush. Bush’s main opponent in the primaries was John McCain, a Senator from Arizona and war hero who was tortured as a POW in the Vietnam War. However, after a poor showing on Super Tuesday, the day when there are a bunch of primary elections at once across the country, McCain dropped out. One guy who stuck around until right before the convention was Alan Keyes, a former diplomat to the Reagan administration. He just kept fighting. And one thing that is absolutely true, that I actually quite admire, is that Alan Keyes remains the only presidential candidate in history to ever jump into a mosh pit on the campaign trail. Michael Moore jokingly gave him his endorsement after he featured the historic moment on his show “The Awful Truth.”
    Anyway, yeah George W. Bush won. You know that, don’t you? He had all the right friends in the right places, the right last name, and oh yeah, a lot of people loved him. Bush asked Dick Cheney, a former Secretary of Defense, to lead a team to help him find a running mate, but in the end, Bush just went with Cheney to be his running mate. However, because Cheney also lived in Texas, he had to change his voting registration back to his old home of Wyoming, because otherwise the electoral votes they would presumably get from Texas would not count.
    While there were a lot of third party candidates, I will only mention the Green Party for this election. The Green Party had been around in some form or another since the 1980s, and had a platform that focused on environmental causes. They nominated Ralph Nader, the famous activist and lawyer who had sparked reform by getting numerous consumer protection laws passed. The Green Party also nominated Winona LaDuke, an activist, economist, and writer from California, as Nader’s running mate. Both Nader and LaDuke had run together back in 1996, but had gotten less than 1 percent of the vote, which is why I didn’t even mention them in that episode.
    The two frontrunners, Bush and Gore, mostly focused on domestic issues. Bill Clinton’s impeachment and the associated scandal with Monica Lewinsky did cast a shadow on the campaign, but Gore tried to convince Americans he was not Clinton. He rarely appeared with Clinton on the campaign trail, and some say this hurt his campaign. Bush called for a more humble foreign policy (clip) and more unity and less partisanship in Washington. Nader, meanwhile, had super rallies in places like Madison Square Garden.

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  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat  7 років тому +1266

    I accidentally said "George H.W. Bush" at 2:15. I apologize...I made this video during a time when I wasn't sleeping much.
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    • @riodeleon3662
      @riodeleon3662 7 років тому +80

      Mr. Beat It's okay. The George Bushes are confusing, right?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +201

      It's easy to get your head lost in the Bushes

    • @riodeleon3662
      @riodeleon3662 7 років тому +34

      Mr. Beat Yeah, I know.

    • @connorcobb5122
      @connorcobb5122 7 років тому +15

      I just say George Bush and George W. Bush

    • @justincoomarhockey2736
      @justincoomarhockey2736 7 років тому +2

      Mr. Beat I

  • @fallen_cookie
    @fallen_cookie 4 роки тому +2773

    Bush 2000: we shouldn't use the military in other countries
    One year later:

    • @sirajisaid9672
      @sirajisaid9672 3 роки тому +173

      “We shouldn’t be nation building” Iraq:Allow me to intro myself

    • @nikovidovic3410
      @nikovidovic3410 3 роки тому +42

      Dick Chenney

    • @time_for_toast4922
      @time_for_toast4922 3 роки тому +98

      To be entirely fair, nobody honestly expected the worst terrorist attack on America in its history months after he took office.
      Now what do you do when people call for action to be taken?

    • @josephstalin8337
      @josephstalin8337 3 роки тому +108

      @@time_for_toast4922 not invade another country which had nothing to do with it

    • @DeNTaN2002
      @DeNTaN2002 3 роки тому +9

      Who could predict they would crash 2 planes to our buildings (+pentagon)

  • @andrewsutherland133
    @andrewsutherland133 6 років тому +1030

    "I do not think our troops should be used for nation building"-George W. Bush
    Probably the most famous and legacy binding quote he ever had

    • @Tyronius_Maximus
      @Tyronius_Maximus 4 роки тому +19

      How ironic

    • @RS-gi9hu
      @RS-gi9hu 4 роки тому +27

      @Inigo Bantok I just want to say that one of his security advisors came to him a few months before the attacks and told him "there is an imminent threat to our national security" to which bush responded "ok great, you have covered your ass now, are you happy"

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy 4 місяці тому +1

      Even in 2000 he was saying Saddam maybe should be taken out, should be if he is too defiant.

  • @liamb8644
    @liamb8644 7 років тому +2395

    I bet Al Gore's glad he didn't win now, considering how bad politically the 2000s decade was.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +953

      He did seem pretty content with going around giving speeches about climate change.

    • @tjgarcia8703
      @tjgarcia8703 5 років тому +672

      yeah but the 2000's was politically bad specifically because of the Bush administration.

    • @mrrogersrabbit
      @mrrogersrabbit 5 років тому +220

      @@tjgarcia8703 well there was 9/11... and the recession... and the growing surveillance state... etc

    • @andrewsutherland133
      @andrewsutherland133 4 роки тому +501

      @@mrrogersrabbit 9/11 was inevitable but the wars weren't, and Al Gore was one of the few politicans at the time that actually were against them from the begining.
      Also, the recession might have also been inevitable, but it became the great recession due to Bush's increased deregulation and inflation due to the wars

    • @thefebo8987
      @thefebo8987 4 роки тому +76

      bush made it bad

  • @sanctificate6285
    @sanctificate6285 3 роки тому +1225

    “This was the 4th in 4 times the winner lost the popular”
    Donald Trump: *”allow me to introduce myself”*

    • @sanctificate6285
      @sanctificate6285 3 роки тому +78

      @WinG73 73. in 2016 he won through the electoral college despite losing popular vote

    • @arkcliref
      @arkcliref 3 роки тому +38

      @WinG73 73. ah yes, the Trump cult

    • @reedplaysgames
      @reedplaysgames 3 роки тому +17

      @@arkcliref inevitably after your comment all future replies will be pointless political arguing

    • @arkcliref
      @arkcliref 3 роки тому +12

      @@reedplaysgames At least you got the "before the political bullshit" card

    • @ashleighstratmann7783
      @ashleighstratmann7783 2 роки тому +14

      Considering this video was released before the 2016 election, we can give Mr. Beat a pass for not including Trump and starting political arguments about the 2016 and 2020 election. If it had been released after 2016 election then I say go right ahead with the political arguments

  • @mizel101
    @mizel101 4 роки тому +882

    "The 4 out of 4 times in American history the presidency went to someone who didn't win the popular vote"
    video posted on October 2016.

    • @unicorncastle983
      @unicorncastle983 4 роки тому +55

      And all those were republican.

    • @achannel6664
      @achannel6664 4 роки тому +30

      @@unicorncastle983 it is theorized that JFK may have not gotten the popular vote, but they didn't count votes back then so we would never know.

    • @brucespicer9732
      @brucespicer9732 4 роки тому +5

      But more states voted for Bush overall

    • @maxwellapton9538
      @maxwellapton9538 4 роки тому +64

      @@achannel6664 What are you talking about about? Of course they counted votes.

    • @achannel6664
      @achannel6664 4 роки тому +1

      @@maxwellapton9538 yes but I'm pretty sure they didn't release them online

  • @orangeslav6726
    @orangeslav6726 4 роки тому +219

    The ALGORE rithm recommended this to me

  • @SeanWuzntHear
    @SeanWuzntHear 5 років тому +1046

    2:04 Andrew Yang makes that two

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat  8 років тому +141

    This is a re-upload. The first upload had a glitch. If you commented on that one, please comment on this video because your suggestions totally got deleted. :(

    • @benwillerth6406
      @benwillerth6406 6 років тому +3

      Mr. Beat it fine mr beat who you think will win in 2020 I think trump will win re election

    • @camacaron06
      @camacaron06 4 роки тому

      Ben Willerth It’s too hard to tell now. Just like the 2016 election. It’s not easy to tell who will win.

    • @logananimates2022
      @logananimates2022 3 роки тому +1

      @@benwillerth6406 lmao sure

  • @mrnonsense1031
    @mrnonsense1031 2 роки тому +144

    Fun fact: 2000 is the earliest election where the candidates and thier running mates from both parties are still alive as of 2022.

  • @kevinhixson1586
    @kevinhixson1586 4 роки тому +737

    "We didn't even know who won until a month later",
    This seems familiar.

    • @mcdabb7226
      @mcdabb7226 4 роки тому +41

      History repeats itself

    • @Skellyy
      @Skellyy 4 роки тому +139

      Biden won

    • @snowii1753
      @snowii1753 4 роки тому +19

      @@Skellyy yeah🇺🇲

    • @Skellyy
      @Skellyy 4 роки тому +79

      Ringsofearth then why arnt dems winning the senate races

    • @Skellyy
      @Skellyy 4 роки тому +87

      Ringsofearth but if they did rig the presidency why not the senate also we lost seats in the house

  • @josezuniga4814
    @josezuniga4814 4 роки тому +199

    2:01 "Alan Keyes remains the only presidential candidate in history to jump into a mosh pit on the campaign trail"
    Andrew Yang: Hold my skateboard

  • @IS34PreteristForce
    @IS34PreteristForce 8 місяців тому +23

    RIP Joe Lieberman, who was 82 years old.

    • @DarrenReems
      @DarrenReems 7 місяців тому +3

      Now I want to play Night Trap for the Sega CD.

    • @mooganify
      @mooganify 15 днів тому

      He’s a moron

  • @rpenn79
    @rpenn79 8 років тому +820

    how about a 50 episode series of how all the state's came to be?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +229

      I like it. I already did Kansas, however, with my Story Time series.

    • @Davey-TheDJ
      @Davey-TheDJ 5 років тому +11

      I agree! I wanna see this asap! 😀

    • @deanc9453
      @deanc9453 4 роки тому +3

      +

    • @rivasahp89
      @rivasahp89 4 роки тому +2

      I'd love to see this series!

    • @codyhunt5477
      @codyhunt5477 4 роки тому +1

      This would be great

  • @erikkrauss8481
    @erikkrauss8481 4 роки тому +193

    "I dont think we ought to be nation building"
    Cheney thinks otherwise

    • @iceman7213
      @iceman7213 3 роки тому +11

      Nader should’ve kept his ass at home

    • @DaDARKPass
      @DaDARKPass 3 місяці тому +2

      Cheney probably agreed with Bush then. The reality that most people nowadays don't want to admit, is that 9/11 basically scarred everyone. It wasn't just the general populace, the government and Bush's administration (including Bush and Cheney) was very clearly scarred by such an event happening. The fear, that such an event happened in America, and the possibility of it happening again pushed them into adopting a far more aggressive foreign policy to "stop it happening again".

    • @erikkrauss8481
      @erikkrauss8481 3 місяці тому

      @@DaDARKPass fair point

    • @thegreatestfinesser2338
      @thegreatestfinesser2338 17 днів тому

      @@DaDARKPassThat still gave them no right to invade Iraq there were no wmd they just wanted oil reserves

  • @michaelelsner3023
    @michaelelsner3023 8 років тому +103

    I just can't thank you enough for this series! So informative, entertaining and fascinating! An idea for the next series would be an analysis of each specific decade of our country...cultural, events, defining moments of each decade..Bravo for a job well done!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +14

      Thank you so much, and fantastic idea. I did a 1920s video with my Story Time series, so I wonder if I could follow that model?

    • @michaelelsner3023
      @michaelelsner3023 8 років тому +5

      +Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel Oh I hope you do! To see the progression of our country and society over the decades would be awesome!!!

  • @formervicepresidentoftheun8896
    @formervicepresidentoftheun8896 8 років тому +466

    .

    • @walterbell7193
      @walterbell7193 5 років тому +26

      Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore ,

    • @shane9245
      @shane9245 4 роки тому +12

      Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore :

    • @samstudios9908
      @samstudios9908 4 роки тому +7

      Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore “

    • @alpeolpa437
      @alpeolpa437 4 роки тому +4

      *

    • @sloopfan3706
      @sloopfan3706 4 роки тому +5

      Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore ;

  • @Setapart.1
    @Setapart.1 4 роки тому +73

    Andrew Yang is now the second presidential candidate to crowd surf

  • @capitollimitedproductions211
    @capitollimitedproductions211 6 років тому +287

    3:43 so much for that one Bush

    • @empireepic92
      @empireepic92 4 роки тому +15

      Capitol Limited productions I had to play back that part it was so unbelievable

    • @Racinrasslinfan36
      @Racinrasslinfan36 4 роки тому +8

      Bush was always full of shit and PNAC which had many members appear in the cabinet wanted war

    • @bjehulk
      @bjehulk 4 роки тому

      Well to be fair, he kept his promise, in Iraq at least. The troops sent there didn’t have any intention of nation building, we thought democracy would just spring up among the Iraqis once we liberated them of Saddam. Therefore we didn’t have a plan to engage in nation building which is ultimately where Bush and his administration messed up.

    • @oklanime
      @oklanime 4 роки тому +6

      @@bjehulk the Bush administration screwed up when they decided to invade Iraq over a lie.

    • @bjehulk
      @bjehulk 4 роки тому

      Oklanime
      No actually. They messed up when they didn’t have a plan to properly instill an American-styled liberal democracy in Iraq

  • @samspoonsskylanders5267
    @samspoonsskylanders5267 3 роки тому +173

    wow its crazy to think about how different the world would be if gore won

    • @richieboostajr.35
      @richieboostajr.35 3 роки тому +32

      I do tend to think it would have been more of the '90s Clinton era extended into the 2000s, like Clinton 2.0. Gore had the right ideas and also the flawed ideas. Bush was a meh to okay President, IMHO, I'm still kinda disappointed with Bush' later years with the economy and the days after 9/11. It's mainly him and his admin. is why many voted for Obama(which should have never happened). Plus the mess in the Middle East and why we are here today. The world hasn't been the same since 9/11, never will again anyways. Now some lifelong politician that's 78 and not fit for office is in office now. Shame how the 2000s and future turned out.

    • @grandpa1139
      @grandpa1139 Рік тому

      ​@@richieboostajr.35 If Gore Won we'd still be in Afghanistan but not Iraq And we'd still Kill Bin Laden Its just that the war on terror would of ended During Obamas Presidency

    • @JimmyMon666
      @JimmyMon666 Рік тому

      @@richieboostajr.35 2 years later and our situation with our President is even worse. Actually 2 years ago Biden wasn't so bad. Now, yeah he's bad. Our other candidate will probably be in prison on election day. Ugh, how did we get ourselves in this situation. My worry is Biden will be forced to resign and we'll be stuck with Harris next term. And I'm not against Harris because she's a woman, but because she's stupid (listen to her most recent speeches like the one about A.I.). Things would have been better had Hilary won in 2016.

    • @L_back
      @L_back Рік тому +6

      @@richieboostajr.35Biden’s existence as a politician was remarkable, until around the mid 2010’s. Idk what happened there, he just aged a lot

    • @RyanDaRizzle
      @RyanDaRizzle 11 місяців тому

      @@richieboostajr.35 WTF are you talking about Bush is the worst president of all time! Yes, worse than Trump.

  • @kirilichushanka1357
    @kirilichushanka1357 8 років тому +366

    You should do every US war or every war US has been in

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +112

      That's a lot! :)

    • @kirilichushanka1357
      @kirilichushanka1357 8 років тому +20

      Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel But at least you have a project for couple o' years

    • @PierreaSweedieCat
      @PierreaSweedieCat 8 років тому +12

      400 years and only 22 or 243 when there was no war. This would be harder than doing all the elections!
      Easier: Doing a quick bio on each POTUS. (Half the work was done via the elections, you see.....)

    • @RollOnToVictory
      @RollOnToVictory 7 років тому +10

      Do every college football season since 1869

    • @luisdavila1236
      @luisdavila1236 7 років тому +13

      Easy,every war after 1776

  • @Leahree
    @Leahree 2 роки тому +24

    This is the first election that I remember. I was 9/10 years old and my stepfather taught me a lot about politics during this time. I gotta say it was a wild one to start with!

    • @tomrogue13
      @tomrogue13 8 місяців тому

      I was 5 and mom and Dad had it on TV. I was bored with how long it was taking for the results to come in

  • @c.w.simpsonproductions1230
    @c.w.simpsonproductions1230 Рік тому +35

    I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the Elian Gonzalez fiasco. That incident turned a lot of the South Floridian Cuban community against the Democrats.

  • @leahryan5560
    @leahryan5560 3 роки тому +34

    Love that you included a clip from “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. The “In the Year 2000” sketch was awesome.

  • @fecxorfecxor768
    @fecxorfecxor768 4 роки тому +94

    Still wonder how much differently things would’ve turned out if Gore had won...

    • @Morning404
      @Morning404 3 роки тому +30

      I'm English and I think about it a lot too. I think things would have been better.

    • @Josh-hy3em
      @Josh-hy3em 2 роки тому +19

      Gore was a good dude and would have had a 50-50 senate. I think things would be better.

    • @evanshiong3557
      @evanshiong3557 2 роки тому +2

      If he had won, he would’ve been only the fourth incumbent Vice President to become president. Him even running for president added to a special tradition. All of the Vice Presidents that served between 1973 and 2001 have sought their party’s nomination: Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and Al Gore.

    • @ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty
      @ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty 2 роки тому +2

      He easily would have been better. Most of the political BS in the 2000s was caused by Bush and his neoconservative ideology. He also caused the recession thanks to trickle down economics.

    • @heywoodjablome7535
      @heywoodjablome7535 2 роки тому +1

      @@evanshiong3557 when did Dan Quayle seek the presidency?

  • @rasputinjesus
    @rasputinjesus 4 роки тому +70

    I didn’t think we’d get a sequel to not only the 2000 election, but the 1948 election too, in 2020.

    • @rbarua3368
      @rbarua3368 2 роки тому

      How so?

    • @idiocrat3744
      @idiocrat3744 2 роки тому +1

      @@rbarua3368 In 1948, Truman's victory was unexpected and shocking.
      In 2000, it's about the demand for recounts ig

    • @coldwar45
      @coldwar45 Рік тому

      @@idiocrat3744Biden’s victory wasn’t shocking though. It was what was predicted. If anything Trumps 2016 win was more like 1948

  • @Lifeskeyishappiness
    @Lifeskeyishappiness 4 роки тому +22

    The first US election that I can remember. Live in the UK but I find the contests very intriguing to follow. This was one of the tightest in history.

  • @lukedetering4490
    @lukedetering4490 7 років тому +205

    5:55 now 5

    • @napoleonhd4349
      @napoleonhd4349 6 років тому +21

      The electoral College doing is job, making sure the big states can't dominate the US.

    • @ttrieds8023
      @ttrieds8023 6 років тому +25

      @@napoleonhd4349 why? The big states are the money source for the usa.

    • @napoleonhd4349
      @napoleonhd4349 6 років тому +13

      So... all the other states don't matter?

    • @ttrieds8023
      @ttrieds8023 6 років тому +29

      @@napoleonhd4349 matter, but they need to make the electoral vote more propotional to the state population.

    • @napoleonhd4349
      @napoleonhd4349 6 років тому +14

      Most of Hillary's votes came from California or the North east of America, why should these places decide who should become President just because they have a more dense population?

  • @rickardkaufman3988
    @rickardkaufman3988 4 роки тому +25

    Dick Cheney never wanted to be VP. He only did it for two reasons-
    1) Dick would get full executive power to the point he was virtually the leader of the USA over bureaucracy, military, energy, and foreign policy.
    2) Bush Jr. would not make his entire platform being anti- LGBTQ as Cheney's own younger daughter is gay and was one of the first major Republican politicians to endorse gay marriage.
    This come under a conflict when Bush Jr. wanted a constitutional amendment to ban same- sex marriage.

    • @rickardkaufman3988
      @rickardkaufman3988 4 роки тому

      @Patrick MacBride Thanks for the clarification.

    • @rickardkaufman3988
      @rickardkaufman3988 4 роки тому +1

      @Patrick MacBride And look he turned out. A war criminal who has no regrets of what he did.

    • @rickardkaufman3988
      @rickardkaufman3988 4 роки тому +1

      @Patrick MacBride IKR. And this guy blames Obama for creating the situation in the Middle East when he fucking started. This is not a defense of Obama because he's a war criminal but did he create the situation people are facing in Iraq? Fuck no. Also, the fact he's heartless both literally and metaphorically is a growing testament to how devious he is. Also, the fact that people couldn't impeach him says a lot and he escaped scrutiny from the Hague which in a just world, he would be rotting there.

  • @thenoneletrictram5579
    @thenoneletrictram5579 8 місяців тому +9

    Well Lieberman Just Died At 82
    R.I.P Joe Lieberman 1942-2024

  • @Marcello_DiMaio8
    @Marcello_DiMaio8 5 років тому +143

    6:08 In New Hampshire Nader go 5% of the vote so, if 2% of green party voters would have voted for Gore, he would have won NH's 4 E.V. and thus the precidency

    • @3andahalf949
      @3andahalf949 5 років тому +17

      Marcello Di Maio assuming they would vote for gore instead of not even vote

    • @houstonburnside8985
      @houstonburnside8985 5 років тому

      I mean yeah

    • @tommyowens9164
      @tommyowens9164 4 роки тому +12

      @The Life Analyst because 3rd party never wins making it a wasted vote

    • @Blaqjaqshellaq
      @Blaqjaqshellaq 4 роки тому +5

      @@tommyowens9164 It's the people who didn't believe in Gore but voted for him to defeat Dubya who wasted their vote...

    • @Minecraftrok999
      @Minecraftrok999 4 роки тому +7

      @The Life Analyst yes, you can tell them to vote for somebody else to stop the worst option.
      The United States has the absolutely terrible election principle of geographically arbitrary voting areas with first past the post. And not just regarding the presidency, you have this shit for every elected national official.
      It's so stupid and only allows 2 parties to exist and is a real massive barrier to having actual democracy.

  • @ADRgman
    @ADRgman 8 місяців тому +6

    Joe Lieberman died today at 82

  • @MrDylan2125
    @MrDylan2125 4 роки тому +7

    I was still in elementary school and stayed up until 4AM to watch the returns on this election. I was very confused when things were not called shortly after midnight.

  • @phoster
    @phoster Рік тому +20

    Remember that snickers commercial that aired during the 2000 election season. The one where he can't decide who to vote for and the narrator says "Not going anywhere for awhile?" Yeah probably the most ironic commercial ever.

    • @RyanFeatherston
      @RyanFeatherston Рік тому +3

      The Nostalgia Critic needs to review that one in his next commercial compilation video.

  • @mellowhigh491
    @mellowhigh491 5 років тому +37

    Andrew Yang recently jumped into the crowd at James Clyburn's fish fry.

  • @TennesseeVolunteer98
    @TennesseeVolunteer98 4 роки тому +99

    This whole thing could have been avoided if Algore won his home state of Tennessee

    • @ltstar9612
      @ltstar9612 4 роки тому +6

      gore did grow up in DC tho

    • @MeesterTweester
      @MeesterTweester 4 роки тому

      Patrick MacBride He would've lost anyway but Clinton had the same home state

    • @niccolorichter1488
      @niccolorichter1488 3 роки тому +7

      @@ltstar9612 no he grow up in Tenesee but was born in DC

    • @sandboxproductions_youtube
      @sandboxproductions_youtube 3 роки тому +21

      Or Al Gore could have won New Hampshire or Ohio, and one of those states would have given him the victory.

    • @ej3203
      @ej3203 3 роки тому +5

      @@sandboxproductions_youtube or like ANY of the Midwestern states could've caught him the win

  • @user-fu7zf4ck9z
    @user-fu7zf4ck9z 4 роки тому +81

    The 2020 election looks a lot like this
    (Edit because people keep commenting: this comment was written long before the election was over. At that time, the election indeed looked like the election of 2000)

    • @lpphillyfan
      @lpphillyfan 4 роки тому +12

      The 2020 election is looking like a mix of this and 1876.

    • @alexjones50
      @alexjones50 4 роки тому +21

      not really, this was a genuiningly close election, the only thing holding back a biden victory in 2020 is some crybaby in the oval office.

    • @Yolze
      @Yolze 4 роки тому +3

      This is nothing like it

    • @chad5795
      @chad5795 4 роки тому +7

      Well, the closest state this year (GA - 0.25%) is not closer than the closest state in 2016 (MI - 0.23%) or if you want to compare that to 2000, the third closest state (WI - 0.22%)

    • @Otto910
      @Otto910 4 роки тому +4

      @MASON ZWILLING *crying WHILE playing golf

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 4 роки тому +36

    If they kept up the re-counts. Wouldn’t been surprised if Gore won

  • @pinoy122793
    @pinoy122793 7 років тому +334

    Do 2020 presidential election in a few years 😁😂.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +77

      +pinoy287 Mos def!

    • @lbintenew
      @lbintenew 4 роки тому +27

      @@iammrbeat keeping your word?

    • @MA-he7nm
      @MA-he7nm 4 роки тому +6

      LB Intenew Trump Hasn’t won yet

    • @itzwick6933
      @itzwick6933 4 роки тому +21

      Under Appreciated Devil and he won’t

    • @MA-he7nm
      @MA-he7nm 4 роки тому +1

      ItzWick y not?

  • @Marcus-cm7di
    @Marcus-cm7di 4 роки тому +16

    These guys: “I can’t wait to be president!”
    One year later: 9/11😳

  • @reptar5.048
    @reptar5.048 2 роки тому +4

    Can we just appreciate the great music in the background of these videos

  • @nachosan216
    @nachosan216 4 роки тому +9

    I've been binging your series since I discovered it three days ago. I can't wait to see the 2020 election video (probably a month after whenever the election is decided).
    A suggestion for a future video series is "The Monarch is dead; Long live the Monarch!", detailing the last days of each English/British monarch and expectations going into coronation of their heir.
    Or maybe the mayoral elections of New York City.

  • @JonathanVideoMaker2007
    @JonathanVideoMaker2007 8 місяців тому +6

    Who is here after the passing of Joe Lieberman?

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 3 роки тому +8

    For those who are watching this for the first time, it goes without saying that the information Matt shows here is correct to the time of upload, which was before the 2016 election

  • @edwardjohn6776
    @edwardjohn6776 5 років тому +29

    Not anymore, Andrew Yang crowd surfed on the campaign trail.

  • @ashleighstratmann7783
    @ashleighstratmann7783 2 роки тому +9

    Fact: someone actually used the 2000 election as a way to not only introduce an SCP but use Gore and Bush as a way for two SCP related beings to compete for presidency. Needless to say the story was more chaotic than the actual election

  • @MyOrangeString
    @MyOrangeString 2 роки тому +31

    I'm always so shocked by the very low turnout in American elections. 50%... Do citizens just don't care?

    • @garrettmetting6938
      @garrettmetting6938 Рік тому +16

      Voting day is on tuesday. The day also isnt a national holiday so people dont get their days off of work to vote. Most americans live paycheck to paycheck and most of their bosses will refuse to give people time off to vote because they dont have to. Also the franchise is restricted through voting laws like some states dont have same day voter registration. For example in texas in order to vote you have to register to vote at least 1 month before election day. Yes some americans dont care about voting but many dont vote because they cant or states make it harder to vote

  • @patoren3gou653
    @patoren3gou653 3 роки тому +18

    Bush's victory really feels like the result of a temporal screw-up in a time travel movie

    • @jamesmukuria4673
      @jamesmukuria4673 3 місяці тому

      IT WAS ETHER SCREW UP OR TELL GEORGE W BUSH THAT HIS PRESIDENCY WAS A WANTED CRIMINAL!? YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON TO COMMIT THIS, AND I WILL NOT LIKE YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!

  • @runescape9010
    @runescape9010 8 років тому +10

    Really loved this series and learned a lot, I do agree with the ideas about a video series on how each state became a state.
    A series how America got all the states and commonwealths would be dope AF.

  • @redblaze8700
    @redblaze8700 3 роки тому +23

    Imagine if two faithless electors in Florida or other Republican state voted for Gore or Nader.

    • @inigobantok1579
      @inigobantok1579 2 роки тому

      The house will vote for President and Republicans have majority.

  • @MichaelSidneyTimpson
    @MichaelSidneyTimpson 3 роки тому +6

    Fun fact, 3 of the 5 presidents who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college were related to a former president: John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush.

  • @thezombiecreeper
    @thezombiecreeper 3 роки тому +13

    But wait, if Bush finished with 271 electoral votes and Gore finished with 266, who got the 1 remaining electoral vote?

    • @giddeywrld
      @giddeywrld 3 роки тому +14

      An elector abstained, refused to vote.

    • @thezombiecreeper
      @thezombiecreeper 3 роки тому +13

      @@giddeywrld oh
      Ironically the one who didn’t vote was not from a state, and was a DC elector.

  • @DarrenReems
    @DarrenReems 9 місяців тому +4

    Happy 90th Ralph

  • @notreallyaghost
    @notreallyaghost 2 роки тому +4

    The ending was cool seeing Mr. Beat tryna figure out what he was gonna do with his channel... and now he's at 472k subscribers

  • @alextheflagguy4032
    @alextheflagguy4032 8 років тому +45

    You should make a series of all Wars that America has and had fought in.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +10

      You're definitely not the first to mention that one!

    • @alextheflagguy4032
      @alextheflagguy4032 8 років тому +3

      Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel I honestly didn't know that but you should because I learn a lot about History and Politics since I'm very Interested it. I also look up Alternative History and Future Wiki. I even write scenarios about Future Politics and History Man.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +3

      Where can I find some of your work?

    • @alextheflagguy4032
      @alextheflagguy4032 8 років тому +2

      I dont publish it sorry.

    • @evanjohnson1299
      @evanjohnson1299 4 роки тому +1

      @@iammrbeat revolutionary, war against Barbary pirates, war of 1812, ongoing wars against Natives, war of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American war, Philippines insurrection, ww1, WW2, Korean War, Boxer rebellion, Vietnam, grenda, Iraq 1, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Irag 2, Syria, Libya, Somalia.

  • @nwpgk8166
    @nwpgk8166 4 роки тому +25

    3:45 Bush would go on to regret that statement...

    • @arre314
      @arre314 4 роки тому +2

      "Humble foreign policy"

  • @rjlt4841
    @rjlt4841 4 місяці тому +3

    Historically, nominating a VP to follow a two term President doesn’t work out well.

  • @aliasraonic
    @aliasraonic 4 роки тому +16

    "lieberman, the first jewish candidate in a presidential election"
    do you mean he WAS a jew or his ancestry? because if it was the latter that'd be goldwater

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 6 років тому +31

    Rest in Peace John McCain 😢

  • @Ziggy21142
    @Ziggy21142 9 місяців тому +1

    Without a doubt, my favorite video from your channel, perfectly made.

  • @michaelswafford8677
    @michaelswafford8677 8 років тому +57

    You could do significant supreme Court cases?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +17

      I floated this idea, too. I've already done Marbury v. Madison and Plessy v. Ferguson with my Story Time series, though...so I was thinking about just continuing them with that series maybe?

    • @EforEvery
      @EforEvery 8 років тому +8

      Yes, their are so many Supreme Court that need to be known to the Earth!

  • @jacobybryant9002
    @jacobybryant9002 Рік тому +2

    3 doors down playing in this video is so badass!

  • @EforEvery
    @EforEvery 8 років тому +11

    Great video! I'll be supporting you soon, I think a good series would be a 50 video series, each where you compare every state of the US plus the Capital and Puerto Rico, in many different ways.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +5

      I do like the idea of a "Geography Now!" series but for the states.

  • @simonster-9094
    @simonster-9094 7 років тому +15

    0:25 "Quote the Raven, Nevergore"

  • @sondosoft4603
    @sondosoft4603 8 років тому +7

    One idea I'd love for a series is taking a high profile politician and making a biography examining their past and how they got to where they are and their future and so on.

  • @dizzydean2767
    @dizzydean2767 3 роки тому +16

    George: Am I winning
    Al gore: Am I winning
    Florida: SHUT UP!!!!!!

  • @stormeegarvin7190
    @stormeegarvin7190 4 роки тому +5

    The 1884 and 2020 election is just like this

    • @lking1540
      @lking1540 4 роки тому +2

      So true.

    • @MeesterTweester
      @MeesterTweester 4 роки тому

      Well in 2020 Joe Biden has 36 extra electoral votes, Trump would need to overturn three states to win and 27 electoral votes are under a 0.6% margin, not enough to win with recounts.

  • @darkchocolate3390
    @darkchocolate3390 6 років тому +15

    What's interesting about Florida that nobody talks about is the Cuban vote. With the Gonzales raid that PISSED a lot of Cubans off, it made them vote more for George W Bush. Considering the large amount of Cubans in FL and the small margin Gore lost by that's a very underrated aspect.

  • @LewisToursVideos
    @LewisToursVideos 4 роки тому +3

    There’s something almost sort of eerie about the fact that he said “the 4th out of 4 times in American history the president won the electoral vote but not the popular vote”, three weeks before only the 5th time in history that it happened...

  • @YuckyBruh
    @YuckyBruh 4 роки тому +5

    Its so weird to think that President Trump ran for president in 2000 in the reform party

  • @shackdaddy7106
    @shackdaddy7106 4 роки тому +64

    What no one knew then was that we had actually elected Dick Cheney as president.

    • @ranelgallardo7031
      @ranelgallardo7031 3 роки тому +6

      By that logic Kamala Harris is currently our President.

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 3 роки тому +1

      @@ranelgallardo7031 it has nothing to do with logic it is historical fact. Dick Cheney made all the decisions when George W Bush was president.
      This is not going to be the case of the working relationship between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Especially because Joe Biden already has eight years experience as a vice president. The relationship will be as much the same as it was with Biden and Obama.
      Know your history better.

    • @ranelgallardo7031
      @ranelgallardo7031 3 роки тому +2

      @@shackdaddy7106 Yet Bush and his other people that worked for him said he didn’t make one damn decision so where is this “historical fact”?

    • @shackdaddy7106
      @shackdaddy7106 3 роки тому +4

      @@ranelgallardo7031 Of course that’s what they said. The fact is that every major decision was made by Cheney. Bush 43 was a mouthpiece. Read some books about the bush presidency. As you may or may not recall it was Chaney’s company Halliburton that made major profits off of the Iraqi war.

    • @ranelgallardo7031
      @ranelgallardo7031 3 роки тому +1

      @@shackdaddy7106 Links?

  • @pdaigle531
    @pdaigle531 2 роки тому +6

    Fun Fact: This was actually the first election that my Mom and Dad got to vote in.

  • @jonathank4278
    @jonathank4278 4 роки тому +2

    I was 9 Years, 11 Months, 26 Days
    , 9 Hours,
    33 Minutes, and 36 Seconds
    on 9/11/2011.

  • @BWFpodcast
    @BWFpodcast 8 років тому +7

    Hey! Love this series. My idea for you is doing a series about what happened to the losers of each election. I say this because "Edmund Muskie" is a throw away gag for me and I wonder whatever happened to the losers. I imagine they become super villains. Or you could do a series of why the Security of State has been important in American history....or just tell me more about Edmund Muskie.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +2

      Well shoot, Muskie later became Secretary of State, so he didn't turn out so bad for him!

  • @kadmii
    @kadmii 2 місяці тому +1

    while i remember 1992 and 1996, this was the first one I was old enough to really care about. I appreciated that both Bush and Gore appeared on SNL's Presidential Bash program to make fun of themselves by emulating their SNL actors' portrayals of them

  • @benv7933
    @benv7933 4 роки тому +26

    This is why EVERYONE needs to vote.

  • @erikdukes2505
    @erikdukes2505 Рік тому +2

    2000 is my birth year. That was the year I was born. Back when the presidential election happened on November 7. I would have been ten months old. I was born on January 19. I was born in the month of January. I was born prior to the presidential election on November 7.

  • @AdamFerrari64
    @AdamFerrari64 4 роки тому +115

    That feeling when Bush only won by 500 votes 😂

    • @tapout18811
      @tapout18811 3 роки тому +9

      Bruhhhhhhh

    • @ryanmcsharry9405
      @ryanmcsharry9405 3 роки тому +9

      That moment when people out of the loop think Bush won in a landslide but they were normal votes.

    • @bensonfang1868
      @bensonfang1868 3 роки тому +4

      Jeb’s magical powers you mean.

    • @doody244
      @doody244 3 роки тому +1

      In the fourth most populated state no less. 500 votes would be close even in a small state like NH but in Florida it was basically nothing. FL overtook NY around 2013 as the third most populated state. Even hate monger Pat Buchanan said that most of his votes in Palm Beach County were probably meant for Gore. My grandmother was an educated woman. She was a snow bird who voted in Palm Beach County. She turned 80 on 6/1/01. She voted by mail so no hanging chad thank goodness. However I could easily see her being confused if she had to deal with stupid chad.

  • @TheSlipperyNUwUdle
    @TheSlipperyNUwUdle 4 роки тому +1

    You’re killing me with the music in these. Holy shit, I miss my childhood.

  • @christophercambra3754
    @christophercambra3754 8 місяців тому +4

    Joseph Lieberman died

  • @aaronluke1993
    @aaronluke1993 2 роки тому +2

    I was your age when I voted in my first presidential election! My first one was Obama vs Romney.

  • @MrZAP17
    @MrZAP17 8 років тому +10

    New to the channel and liking what I'm seeing! Anyway, I'd like to suggest a SCOTUS-centric series. Either a history of the Supreme Court, or prominent Justices past and present, or important cases. The Supreme Court is an extremely important part of our government and with a very interesting history but I feel that it's perhaps one of the least understood by the average person. Anyway, no matter what you do next, you have a new subscriber!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +3

      Welcome and thank you so much for the feedback! I think you are going to be pretty happy next year with the choice of my next series. :)

  • @anaveragechannel468
    @anaveragechannel468 4 роки тому +14

    We're about to get a repeat

    • @localwillow9948
      @localwillow9948 4 роки тому +1

      Nah, Biden already won.

    • @LilWindex1378
      @LilWindex1378 4 роки тому

      @@localwillow9948 He hasn't won yet, it has to go through court first

    • @localwillow9948
      @localwillow9948 4 роки тому

      @@LilWindex1378 most of that stuff isn’t going to make it through the US Supreme Court anyway.

    • @LilWindex1378
      @LilWindex1378 4 роки тому

      @@localwillow9948 You never know, it would be embarrassing if 2000 happened all over again haha

    • @localwillow9948
      @localwillow9948 4 роки тому

      @@LilWindex1378 well, 2000 was different because neither candidate had won yet. But ya never know.

  • @ranelgallardo7031
    @ranelgallardo7031 4 роки тому +22

    This is probably one of the few asterisk Presidential elections

    • @TheFranchiseCA
      @TheFranchiseCA 4 роки тому +9

      Top potentially stolen elections, in order of irregularities: 1876, 1824, 1960, 2000.

    • @ranelgallardo7031
      @ranelgallardo7031 4 роки тому +7

      Matthew Swenson 2016 should be up there with the Russian interference.

    • @TheFranchiseCA
      @TheFranchiseCA 4 роки тому +5

      @@ranelgallardo7031 Foreign efforts to sway it were real--and have continued since--but the count itself looks right, so it's in the next tier down for me.
      It's still super weird, but I'd be surprised if there was fraud. I wouldn't be if I found that out about 2000, or even more with 1960; I'd be surprised if it didn't in 1824 or 1876.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat 4 роки тому +3

      @@ranelgallardo7031 The Russians didn't interfere according to Mueller.

    • @ranelgallardo7031
      @ranelgallardo7031 4 роки тому +5

      finchborat Nah he just proved the President wasn’t involved, the CIA and FBI proved they did.

  • @ontherowe4549
    @ontherowe4549 5 років тому +1

    Some times when I can't sleep and I have nothing better to do I binge watch this series.

  • @PhilipDeLong
    @PhilipDeLong 8 років тому +5

    How about a series on the Vice Presidents of the United States? They may be sometimes obscure, sometimes not, but there would be a bunch of interesting backstories.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +3

      Another great idea. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Metallimad06
    @Metallimad06 Місяць тому +2

    1980, 1992, 2000. Most important elections in modern history.

  • @Godless_Doc
    @Godless_Doc 4 роки тому +4

    I reluctantly upvoted this video, solely for accuracy.

  • @streetguru9350
    @streetguru9350 Рік тому +2

    "I don't think our troops should be used for nation building" BRO WTF!!!!!!

  • @lssweet
    @lssweet 10 місяців тому +3

    5:54 This part aged terribly _very_ quickly.

  • @brandaid7519
    @brandaid7519 8 років тому +3

    I think you should consider doing a series that looks at what happened between the elections. You touch on some things here and there, but in some cases there are significant events that might have more subtle impacts on why people might have voted the way they did.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому

      Yeah, I have tried to do that with my Story Time series, and I plan on picking up that series again next year as well.

  • @michaelwillis7832
    @michaelwillis7832 4 роки тому +19

    Al Gore should've never picked Joe Lieberman as his Vice President in 2000

    • @Matthewsmollen4
      @Matthewsmollen4 4 роки тому

      Why? I used to like Joe Lieberman, but then I turned against him because he was over agreeing with President George W. Bush and he was siding with Republicans. I’m a very strong Democrat. I’m glad Joe Biden won.

    • @LawrenceGaming
      @LawrenceGaming 4 роки тому

      @@Matthewsmollen4 Joe hasn't won yet... The AP doesn't decide elections...

    • @panzerkampfwageniv4065
      @panzerkampfwageniv4065 4 роки тому +7

      @@LawrenceGaming Uhhhh buddy Biden won

    • @lamaripiazza5226
      @lamaripiazza5226 4 роки тому +2

      @@LawrenceGaming He has won

    • @lamaripiazza5226
      @lamaripiazza5226 4 роки тому

      @@Matthewsmollen4 Well then you just explained why.

  • @AhJeezEnt
    @AhJeezEnt 2 роки тому +2

    Fantastic as always, just sad you didn’t include any of Al Gores scoffs or Bush’s nod from the debates lmao

  • @EgirlPoke
    @EgirlPoke 4 роки тому +21

    0:24 is ironic because those same people are getting mad that trump lost

  • @janinewetzler5037
    @janinewetzler5037 3 місяці тому +1

    I am going to watch that Nader video, thankyou for the work, and yes, I am a junkie...and I am not seeking treatment for it!

  • @mitchjervis8453
    @mitchjervis8453 8 місяців тому +3

    RIP Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish Vice-Presidential nominee in American history.

  • @Everclearfan86
    @Everclearfan86 11 місяців тому +1

    I was born in 93, this was the first election I remember.

  • @anonyKinetic
    @anonyKinetic 8 років тому +5

    Perhaps a look into the legacy of each president and how they contribute to the history of America and the world.

  • @benjaminteixeira4709
    @benjaminteixeira4709 4 роки тому +7

    Revisiting this before the election tommorow

  • @il_padrino4665
    @il_padrino4665 4 роки тому +6

    Andrew Yang crowd surfed twice and talked about his favorite anime (Akira) at a rally.
    He is far superior than Alan Keyes