In den USA im Kino, demnächst bei uns:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oH8gm9I0eM4
Aus der engl. Wikipedia:
After two terms as Vice President, Gore ran for President in the 2000 United States Presidential election, selecting Senator Joe Lieberman to be his vice-presidential running mate. Gore’s policies had changed substantially from his 1988 Presidential campaign when he ran as a Southern Centrist, reflecting his eight years as Vice President.[40]
On election night, news networks first called Florida for Gore, later retracted the projection, and then called Florida for Bush, before finally retracting that projection as well.[41] Florida’s Republican Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, eventually certified Florida’s vote count.[42] This led to the Florida election recount, a move to further examine the Florida results. The Florida recount was stopped a few weeks later by the Supreme Court of the United States. In the ruling, Bush v. Gore, the Florida recount was called unconstitutional and that no constitutionally valid recount could be completed by the December 12 deadline, effectively ending the recounts. This 7-2 vote ruled that the standards the Florida Supreme Court provided for a recount as unconstitutional due to violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and further ruled 5-4 that no constitutionally valid recount could be completed by the December 12 deadline. This case ordered an end to recounting underway in selected Florida counties, effectively giving George W. Bush a 534 vote victory in Florida and consequently Florida’s 27 electoral votes and the presidency.[43] The results of the decision led to Gore winning the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes nationwide, but receiving 266 electoral votes to Bush’s 271 (1 DC Elector abstained).[44] Gore strongly disagreed with the Court’s decision, but decided “for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.”[45]
The 2000 election will be the subject of a 2008 made-for-TV movie directed by Jay Roach, produced by, and starring Kevin Spacey called Recount. It is scheduled to premiere on the HBO cable network on May 25, 2008.
— Mark