ABSTRACT
The presidential election of 2000 will go down in history as one of the closest ever. It was one of only three elections (along with 1876 and 1888) in which the popular vote winner did not receive an Electoral College majority. It ended with the closest possible division of seats in the Senate, fourth closest in the House, and second closest electoral vote (Ceaser & Busch, 2001). Wayne (2001), in his overview of the events of Election 2000, stated that the presidential campaign was the most expensive, one of the longest, and highly competitive. Ceaser and Busch (2001) called it the Perfect Tie, because almost all partisans voted for candidates from their own party and all the short-term factors worked equally on voters in different and offsetting directions.
