2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries
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From January 24 to June 6, 2000, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2000 United States presidential election. Incumbent Vice President Al Gore was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2000 Democratic National Convention held from August 14 to 17, 2000, in Los Angeles, California, but he went on to lose the Electoral College in the general election against Governor George W. Bush held on November 7 of that year, despite winning the popular vote by 0.5%.
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What helped Gore win the Democratic primaries and convention is the fact that he was Vice President, especially of a popular incumbent President, thus making Gore come across as a surrogate candidate for a third term of a President who is forbidden by the 22nd Amendment from running for reelection again. But Clinton's popularity did not help Gore in the general election.