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Democrats Should Remember Al Gore Won Florida in 2000 — but Lost the Presidency With a Pre-emptive Surrender

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David Gergen : GOP candidates in Florida , Arizona , Georgia , Florida races are likely to trigger a recount.

Gergen says Al Gore won Florida in 2000 if a full recount had taken place, he would have been president.

He says Gore lost largely because, unlike Bush , he refused to fight with all the tools available to him to win the election.

He asks: If Democrats have not learned the lessons from 2000 , GOP will manipulate the process again.

Donna Brazile : Bush won Florida by 537 votes and the Electoral College by 271-266 .

Brazile says recount was paid for by a consortium of news outlets, but it was just two months after 9/11 attacks.

She says Gore 's mistake was that he didn't want to make an issue about what had really happened in 2000 election.

Bush went on to become one of the most catastrophic presidents in U.S. history, she says.

Anyone who believes in a strategy of trusting the system to deliver the most basic justice “needs to have their head examined,” says McAlevey .

“I would not accept an endorsement from a world-historic war criminal," he says.