YES!
"...most of my progressive friends have a more tolerant attitude towards the transaction: “After what happened to him,” in the recount of 2000, one friend remarked, “I’d forgive him almost anything.” A politically active environmentalist, too, was taking the news in stride: “I don’t think the community is too upset,” he said. “My personal sense is he got a good deal.”"
Someday a true investigative journalist will detail what really happened when Gore's team hired a PR firm to do mass calling and intimidate voters in hope of turning the election only to have it backfire. But, then how they managed the media into making it look like an effort on Bush's part when they demanded a recount.