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Then in 2000 the Democrats are again going with the southern candidate Al Gore who had been the vice president from Tennessee
2000年的大選中民主黨再次提名了來自南部的候選人戈爾，他來自田納西州，曾任副總統
He does not take his home state that actually was even all that close
但他沒有贏得田納西的選票，盡管他在那的支持率只是落后一點點
and you get a very different map, you get a map that looks a lot like the map of 2004
2000年的選情地圖發生了很大變化，但和2004年大選的情況卻非常相同
with just a couple of exceptions like New Mexico Iowa and New Hampshire, otherwise it's pretty much the same map
只有幾個例外的州有點差異，如新墨西哥，愛荷華，和新罕布什爾州，其余州的選情幾乎一模一樣
so even though Gore is another southern candidate of a moderate political background
盡管戈爾也是一名來自南方的政客且同樣有著溫和派的背景
He was by the time in the election much more associated with the liberal wing
但在他參選的時候他代表更多的是自由派
He ran on a more liberal and progressive platform
他主張更為自由，激進的政綱
He was also heavily tied in with environmentalism
他同時是一位堅定的環保主義者
Being probably the greenest major candidate we've had
也許是大選史上最提倡環保的候選人
A strategy that did not sell very well in the south
然而南方的選民似乎不吃這套
didn't sell very well, in much of the Intermountain West either, but very very narrow and of course as you remember
在西部山區，也沒有得到很好的響應，但你一定記得這是場非常接近的大選
Gore actually did win plurality of the votes, but did not win because of the electoral college
事實上戈爾獲得了大部分的選民投票，但他敗在了選舉人票上
and Ralph Nader was 2.7 as often viewed as having spoiled it for Gore, because of the Florida vote where Nader took 100,000
第三方競選人納達獲得2.7%的支持，但正是這2.7%壞了戈爾的好事，因為他在佛州搶走了戈爾10萬選票
Going to Kerry and Bush 2004, a very similar map, like I say it with a few exceptions
來看04年克里對陣布什的情況，選情非常相似，像我說的只有極少區別
We will look a lot of this map just in a few minutes
我們有幾分鐘過一下這幅地圖
