Maybe so but why is it Reagan beat the pants off the dems but Bush barely beat of all people Al Gore and may have a fight on his hands against a person who stands for nothing in senator Kerry. Reagan was able to get alot of dems to vote for him during his years in office.
I'm not sure, but I have some ideas:
For one thing, Florida wasn't the only place where outright fraud took place. My son in St. Louis said it was terrible, right out in public, and not even a pretense was made to hide it. I think that there was massive fraud in Michigan, in Wisconsin, and many other states. I sincerely doubt that Gore won the popular vote, because even in states he clearly won, such as California, there was voter fraud. You may decide that Gore did win the popular vote, and that anecdotal evidence doesn't count, but I disagree.
In addition, the press was NOT the same during President Reagan's campaign as during President Bush's. I know, I lived through both of them (and Nixon's, and Carter's, and Bush 41 and Clinton's) as an adult. The fraud and bias by the media during President Bush 43's campaign was huge and horrible. Just think if it had succeeded...