https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000#Florida_recount "Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more popular votes than Bush.[61] Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate, making him the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Furthermore, Gore lost West Virginia, a state that had voted Republican only once in the previous six presidential elections.[62] A victory in either of these two states would have given Gore enough electoral votes to win the presidency."