Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the previous November. Twenty years earlier,

Bush in the White House ... roots in a founding document," because there was a chance it would have gone to Al Gore and the Democrats, says Marsh. So they made a political decision and essentially ...

Former Vice President Al Gore evoked the ghosts of the 2000 election — when he battled Republican nominee George W. Bush for the White House — as reporters asked him to comment...

In the 2000 presidential election, Democrat Al Gore lost the state of New Hampshire narrowly, by 7,211 votes. Under the state’s “winner take all” system, all four of the Granite State’s Electoral College votes went to Republican George W.

Lawyer Tom Goldstein co-founded SCOTUSblog, which chronicles Supreme Court cases. He has appeared dozens of times before the high court.

2001: Al Gore and George W. Bush Democrat Al Gore conceded to Republican George W. Bush after 36 days of legal battling over Florida’s ballots ended with a divided Supreme Court ruling to end ...