2000 Bush VS. Gore

"Word"

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Museum of the Moving Image
The Living Room Candidate
"Word," Gore, 2000

[TEXT: high unemployment...record deficits...]

MALE NARRATOR: From high unemployment and record deficits, the hard work of all Americans turned our economy around.

[TEXT: record jobs...a record surplus]

MALE NARRATOR: We now have record jobs and a record surplus.

[TEXT: George W. Bush gives away almost half the surplus to the wealthiest 1%]

MALE NARRATOR: But George W. Bush has a tax plan that gives away almost half the surplus to the wealthiest one percent.

[TEXT: Al Gore: middle class tax cuts...strengthening Social Security...strengthening Medicare]

MALE NARRATOR: Al Gore. Tax cut directly to the middle class, while strengthening Social Security and Medicare.

[TEXT: Al Gore: improving education...paying down the nation's debt]

MALE NARRATOR: Improving education. Paying down the nation's debt.

[TEXT: Al Gore for President]

MALE NARRATOR: Al Gore. America's prosperity working for all.

Credits

"Word," Democratic National Committee, 2000

Maker: Democratic Victory 2000

Original air date: 10/18/00

From Museum of the Moving Image, The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012.
www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/2000/word (accessed May 15, 2025).

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2000 Bush Gore Results

Domestic concerns were at the heart of the 2000 presidential campaign as Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush sparred over a relatively small group of key issues, including prescription drug plans for senior citizens, the future of Social Security, education, and the economy. Each side claimed that the other’s economic plan would result in increased deficits. Gore’s commercials claimed that Bush’s planned tax cuts were irresponsible, and Bush’s commercials claimed that a Gore administration would squander the budget surplus through big spending, bringing back the days of high deficits. With the economy in good shape, and with the public seemingly uninterested in foreign affairs, the election was a battle for the center. The commercials for both campaigns attempted to create warm images of their candidates with soft background music.

Conspicuously missing from the commercials was reference to the sex scandal and impeachment that marred the last two years of the Clinton presidency. The election was the closest in American history, determined by a margin of just 537 votes in Florida. A series of intense legal battles over the Florida recount was not resolved until a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision 36 days after the election.

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