Your impression is incorrect. We were outraged, we were heartbroken, we were rending shirts and tearing hair. There were comparisons to sub-Saharan Africa, there were conspiracy theories about ties between the Supreme Court and Halliburton, it was ugly. Because keep in mind: Gore won the popular vote by half a percent. That's a greater margin than Kennedy. But then, as now, the entrenched political structure wasn't interested in upending 200 years of tradition and gaming to satisfy the immediate anger of a disaffected populace. So here we are: two wars and a recession later, again acting as if a third party candidate makes any kind of sense.My impression is that people were upset and frustrated, but that you couldn't describe half the country as livid.