25 Years in 25 Days (2000): Bush v. Gore

Bush vs. Gore, 2000

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.

Also today: the gentrification of Brooklyn.


Remember the 2000 presidential election? How could you forget it - Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the presidency. Brian looks back on the contested presidential election that was eventually decided in George W. Bush's favor by the Supreme Court.